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t • Volume28- Jantaar¥-Februar¥, 1953 Number 1 i TH_.Z, UmSTErtof the gospel has to. l_ave'becn reasoils [or suspicion bding" " " do with ,the spiritual wells're of "Plac:ed on theminister.i Some ha¢'c..... : . ' _' ' " - [ men. " He deals with the' soul.q"of been taclless and indiscreet and ha_;e

ihdividuals. This ishis primary .rune- "blundered into the sickroom: unpre-. tiOn as a pastor or.even as an even- p_ircd to do any par-ticular "good." But

cox_r:_,s gelistic Christian. But in this present part of the blame must be laid at the• "." . .. , • . - .

'. • - - ' day of expanditig emphases and en- door of the physician. Probably thereEditt,l:ial The Sick Mm_ in Y.m'.P_:risla . - ..... :1. - lightenment, he has learned to ochie_re is no other pfofosslon which is tempt-No_: Yi,m"s St,rm,m. Meditati.fis on an.Old Calendar..H!_w. C Hvut.,r . .... :. t; his major objective t|n'ough channels ed moi'e to'adopt o materialistic phi- -

"" * . . The Sii_nilicancc of PeniS;cost. Part fit Chtzrh's. _(r C_lrte/ " " ...... _.... _1 which may appear to be extraneous losophy than is the _nedieal profession..... . " to sbme, but in'reality are more direct Tlae doctor looks for material' causes

Tat, Core of Positive Prt, uching,, Kdu,, !, ito!l.,.rld :btd,;*'}_,J_. . - ............ It than a superficial bonslderalion would" .'lind .treats them. by inaterial:means.Tile Pra_'ei' Life of.the Soul Winnvl lilid hltel'cessor. A,'tto/d 1?.. Cai.lsoo: .)r .. 13 reveal. . One autl_orlty has expressed the view

" " " " " " ' " " !eager seen -asa" " * " " ',,. ' " Among the many situations among that "matt9 r is no "Th, Minister. a Voice of Authtl[ttv. A L. _arqtll ._,:...,.... ........ ...... .• B:wkwoods Pt't, aCllel" _f t-he Sot_tllw_,si _lalhdit,ll A.' /Vils,,u ..'..:.: . . Y.2 15arishioners which come' under his 'dull. lifeless substance hut is believed" - . "'. supervision, ihe person _,hc :is-ill to be spilftual in its hltimate'form.!'

" " This-suggests their tl_re'.inight beI,[illv.¢loln::;.I[t.wn eel. d. I(i,tafiotlt CJrilll,r .; ...... :..................._ . -," ....... '.. ¢28." must receive, a large .portion of his other means .than the material' in the"wt, "Believe" ,n" "The Bible Te;K:laes." 31 ,I "I n "'i.g .. ............ 29 - .: ' " attention.• Even his eoitstituency as

" " - " " : well as his parmhion_rs'expeei him to healhag -of the body, and we believeThe Ruvivid We Need. D _i!th Boice ............ .... : .:tit minister to them in these unfortunate that a.t this point _;eligi6n must be -

• Sin Is a Bad Ba_:gain. Robe,,t G. Niels(m . - ..... : .............. jfs. emergencies. The pastor i_ interested taken •into consideration. Man is'more. in. the spiritual _,elfare of such people than .a body; he is also mind and

" " " " first, but he must a'lso.be interested "spirit, and here is where the minister

-- ':t',._c'rtc,d :. . • .... in-their physical being and their men- steps into the pictui'e,. . . ."':i "". .' . _- " " "' " " " aysictan does', not.... - .... " ' " tal att*tudes . Even a phymm_uknows As the pl seen) to

- that a kmdly word spoken, in season" have the Ume to'.dev0te.to o patientThe" Pastor's Wovkshof .......... " ....... -_.......... 43 might; do more to relieve a distressed other-than_Ri minister to his physical

• "1: ree So'rap _{c Studies, l_l K.Moldt¢,n ........... .:........ ..... . ...,IS mind :and "body thanmedicine or an .needs, .then the logicalpet:son is theThe llible and the Church of the N:_z_tvent.. Mn'r_'i_l d. Taploi-" " " " ............ ,...51i operationror much.elaborate examina- pp_stor or minister, wlm ."takes. up the -

tion. No good physician is interested slack _' where the physician" leaves off,,_Diroarl,t //¢msllnt Iles,_ (_l'olh Presb!ltvrmu Lily . ............. '.,Oft

alone:in the physical well-being of his In any case tlmreis the minister'sLot Tber_ Be Light Esther Miller Pcaith'," i..... '" . ........ i._ ...... . ........... " ,(i:t patient; andneither can the pastor be opportunity to-satisfy the sick. man.,. ".

Musings' ot'a MiniSter's Wife. MrS. iV. M. l:ranklil_ :.._.. .'_.:.._....: ...... : ..... -.... G4 interested in' the spiritual condition The pastor must first look .at the:o'f his people and fa!l at:the point of patient as a whole. There is mere to "

": - ' . .. suffering and mental distress. Both be efnsidered than the person's sick-. • . : '. " " ' '.. p_/stot:' and physician know that re- ness;, the minister must .think of _:he

..... " .... .. ) ligibn and medicine are-mutual and patient's surrmindings, his family life,• - 'domple*nentar_" foz,ces... . - his work, his hobbies: his friends, his

" " " . _ " In many instances "in the past the. hopes, and his -][ears. Secondly, -liePublished binmnthly by tim Nazayepe Pdbli.qhing'Hou_e, 292:}.Troost Aventte, Box . pastor has been tolerated by the phy- must make God real, and bring the

527 Kml_'ns City 4]. Mi.o_oflri. rfiaihtnined by trod inthe intbrest of the Cbureh of tb6 I: _ieian, and sometimes_the doctor has pat!ent's .fai.th up to the highest de- "_lazm-enlf. Subscription price: .$1,25 a y.c_r., Entered" as se_:.t,nd-class runnel: at the. post ". been either hostile or indifferent to gree, .

office at Knnsas City, Me. A'ecCl)t;ll]t'e, for maili_m, _tt special, rattt, of )ostage, provided ]

for m Section 1103. Act of October 3.-1917. authorized Dece ner" 01 1925. Address all the part the minister plays 'in the The tw0.faetors'which-must receivec0nlribuiions to.'t_ae Pre_zchcr_ M*i/_nzi.ne.2923 Troosf" Avcmic.Box 527. Kat_sns,City 41; healing of the sick. No doubt there great attenti0nare'th0se" of fear and

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loneliness. The patient has great con- .preach. Hol'e themifdster eandssure of compassion-on all who were sick, he can have compassion as his Lord.tern in ce/'tain areas where the p0stor hini-that there is n loving God who 'hungry, sinful naked, insane, ira- and a never-failing concern for peo- .cal_ furnish great relief. First is the cares and.can, forgive his.sinsmld tile ." prisoned;, those who were widows , • pie. Ha'has further a eonseiodsness "feeling 6f helplessness. 'Hats confined sense of. gu.ilt call be reinovcd. When orphans, oppressed. He had a- never:, of a mission to perform in this realmto a strangebed; his clothes are all this" occurs; then the fear of defith be- failing, concern for PEOPLE. They of wl_ieh We are writing; he need nottaken from }lira'.and lie is: given a " to fade into insignificance andgins were.more important than laws, rules, be sentimental hut practical he mustqueer gown to wear; he cannot'select . problems do not seem-so important, regulations, customs, traditions. )non- be patient, never hurried; n_ver "of- •his own food; he cannot.take his own or at least so large, ey, property,, government, or church, fended. He must cause people to face .

• hath but must be bathed b3' a stran- Pl"Obably"the patient hak few if any And, Brother .Pastor, rclnember- that 'their difficUlties in'a.realistie mannei"ger; lie.is not in control Of the Situa- friends or relatives. Here.lonelineSs the same obtait:is today.. Your eon_ and" should: fellow the teachings of' " i ' • :;tion but must submit-to nurses, n- captivates In n. and file pastor, seas" earn should be for .peopl e far more Jesus.as regards sickness and health.:

• " terns:find doctors. He has no privacy ing sucha situation, will call more than .any of'these other things, im- But one thing is certain:" "lie mustand suffers because of the impersonal, frequently "and become a friend as portant-thbugh they may be. Notice have. like the Master, a well-attitude.on the part. of everyone. Here.. well aS a minister, Gqperally ionely that Jesus was unhurried and patient; integrated personality; which can be " "

.. the pastor comes"ifl iwith a pel's0nal people suffer -bitterly, espeeia!ly if. never'disgdsted or offended He never brought about by the presence of.the- interest in the pat el)t, and m_inytimes " they are sick. To-alleVihte-:this the shrank from the repulsive or the. Holy Spirit in his own life, and'not ..

he appears.like nn oasisJn'the desert, pastor, should contactthe patient ,as .1. diseased. This Christ .was a Physiciafi" substitute the "do asI-say and not.

Then again .lie has many newwor- soon as lie goes .to the ilospital or as : 2, . of'the.h0dY'.as well as the'soul. "There' as- :I do". method. If he ministersries to disturh him..There is concern soon as lie learns'of hi_ illness; pos- •. was nc_ cluestion about the" mandate, rightly, thenhe too gives people some-about the illness itself. Will I have sibly he" could call in the. evening of He W.ho went about dbing good was thing .to live for.

to have an operation? How'long will the patient's first night in the hospital, - - a physician of'the, body as _;¢ell as of There" is one furtl_er item to be

I.be here? Will it hurt? Can I. take when he starts'off to the' operating " the soul, and could the rich promises added and .that.is that the.paster ha_s •it or.will. I inakc a fool of myself? room, or when the hours have brotight of the Gospel. have be0n fulfilled, a.wonderful opportunity in.dealing

•. These are all questions which are no.visitors. But let us reinember that, :tl_ere would have. been _no need-of adisturbing toa s_nsitive nathre. Then thougb all normal fears and tensions new dispensation of" science .. :'. All" with the sick, not only to Win themthere are' the'w0rrics about finances, can be relieved by a minister, there'. " through the centuries, the Chu/'ch has to Christ and assist them to normalay.Of health, but Mso' to win them to the

" about the family, about his position are abnormal: fears, and'psychoses . never Wholly'abandoned tile.claim to cbureh.:People m:er00re'approae h-or'job. (Suppose they discover that which should 'be considered by the " apostolic healing; nor iS. there troythey can do 3,vith0ut me?) .Whata physician, for this. is not in the'reahn reasen why she.should'7: (Osier. El)o- able" during fin illness itmn.at any

horridthoughH - . ' of the',phstor's ministrations. There . . fulton .o[-Modern. Medicine, p. 29). ether'time. They al:o thjnking._eri- " " 'Beside these there'are positive fears- may bea little Overlapping in certain ... JesuS' teabhing is still valid today, ously and are ready to carryen that

whichlie faces. As.we have suggested, areas "but let th'e pastor, always re;" " for He taught that disease is not nee- serious thought into the'radii m of theirthere is always the fear of pain. Then member the "distinct lilnits to'his pas_ • essarily the result of sin. This gives" .spiritual needs. A goad pa_t0r willthere is the fear of. physical tiandicap "feral office. . to th e minister a leverage of optimism make more friends in the hospital anddr def0rmity;.fear of an operation and "The 'Great Pattern is found in our.. in assisting the sick" persom But at funerals than in any-other pJace.the thought of dying onthe operating precious Lm'd. Jesus ininistered to " desu_ dld'two Other things. He,:,)orked Brethren, let us never be'too' busy to:tablel the fear of anesthetlc; the fear -individuals. Of course in a vei'y su- " through His .own' tremendously pew- take care of that sick man in theof beirig used as a'guinea pig; the fear . parlor way .He knew what waS:.in the "erful .and well-integrated pe'rsonality parish, for we inight not 0nly bring-of surrendex2ing himself into, the hedx'ts of men. He could see beneath 'andHe=gave people'somethiiig to live him contentmentand restore his con--hands of.a surgeon and into the hands the otitward acts.'anc] spoker;._words; " for (paper by Chaplain Maleolm B. fidenee hut we might save a s0ulof G.od. Spiritually, there is the fear.el " as'He understood thoroughly'human Ballinger] of Ann Arbor, Michigan. from death.

death and a.sense el. guilt. When a. nature. 'He .had an unlimited range Previous paragraph c r e d.it e d to 'A: few'bits of advice.patient isnot a Christian, the latter ..of sympathy. He met high and low, above); . .is vei'y potent and.dynamic as regards rich and poor edueated and un- But we Would like to-:parallel "these" 1. Keep friendly " :with. the hospitalthe patient's improvem.ent and recov- learned wise and simple, saints" and characteristics ofthe Master and obr: and the ph_'sician. Make hir_ feelery. Here the minister can come 'to sinners, Jews.and Gentile_, honored serve lust to what extent'the paster, that y0u a/'e helpful and not harmful.

the relief Of the patient. At times like and ridiculed, crowds- and" individ- or minister should me_suro up 'to 2. Stand. or sit whm'e the patientthis.a patient might review all of his uals, old and young, White and "col- • .his-Lord. Even though he is not.G0d - _ ^-- _- --e "- " "past sins, wickedness, disobedience ored, popular anti shunned, well arid he can. have insight.' .....He must :have may :e_t_.,y _ yuu.' ..warrings, ahd"is su'sceptible, to ap- . sick. The' Master had a. t_reat depth . sympathy unadu_tdrated.by partiality:. - - (Continlied on pe/_e 42) " :-

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d it - , Him." We are, free moral_agents; and, the way men aha women put nff fin: "Me ations on an Old Calendar van choose_as we {'Jill. ancial .or physiehi checkups. _nd itt .... .-Z .' • Time eventualise produces our rec- is-no lc._s true in the spiritual reahn,

By. Hugh C. Benner ord. Tht;ough the years time crystal- Btft if we would serve our own

.. ". t _ _l " llzes, a life into a total record which • best-interests, we must be willing to'See then that.re'stalk:circumspect- L So_,zr,_t¢ FACTS Co_cesNIuG TIr,_E is.the •basis'of final judgment• .So. in face facts _tnd._eome to a just judg-

l.,/,',ot KS ]o_ils, but ad wise.redeemintj • . " " a very real sense, every seeo'nd .of ment concerning thern.

I _ ,h,, tim,,, becau._e.the •days are evil L" The Character el Time • ".time has something of eternity in it. -_- (t'_ph. 5:.15-16). 'Time never is siaqe. Time is al- In tlmt .sense, there is no such thing -

.... . " " " 1,. Persbnal.ReIatioa {o God ....

Walk i-n wisdo',_, toward them. that ways "on the.. move." It will not as an inconsequential moment.'Evcry Have" you servekl :'God faithfully"

"art, _l;_lhout, redeemir_g the time (Col. stand still• Relentlessly, ceaselessly., momeht bas its part ia the redord. ' du'tqng the past year?4: 5], -- _liaibtly, time pass'es. adding second't6 " . If the answer is '_Yes," then follows

• " " " : ' second, minute to minute_ hour ,to " " 3__'The Value o S Tinge " die question as to the,quali),y.of (hatIt was'the last week ih the year-:--:, hoar. day 'to dayt. week to week, .Tiffs is.variable_in Telation to, the. service. Was there a consciousness of

I}ie ,last day'of that wetlY--:--December: neath t6 monflt, year to yc0r." .Time individual's attitude• ..Wliat Was 1952 the presence of GOd that grew-with:;1. O, the wall near my desk bung cannot,be, sped. up or slowed down, worlh.to you? That depends on:wh,'it the experiences of the :,,car?'. Was;, cah,mlar wliich for. twel've months "!0n it moves, at.a uniform pace. you did' with the thnc. There are - -there a'sense of easy communion witl_had g-rw,.d it_ mrpose of keeping me "Tim(_ is .ifreh'ievable. No past . . ..j'i_st two possibilities: you spent it, God that gave you tim blessedness of

m t mob with the time. On my desk moment can he"called -back in order m" you invested in. it. die'inc, fellowship?,lay a brand-new calendar that"within to regain an expei'icnce of.]oy;Neither If you just spent the time, it is of And whz_t of your intensity? Sohourn would.begin its. year of-sea:wee, ran'it be "retrievdd in order to banish little xialue, You existed 3661/1days - many.today..are sfitisfied' with-a pas-ond,th, ohl 'calendar woti]d be dis- '_m unpleasant event or to erase a -., , . 8.790 hours•'• You ate, slept, worked sire. apathetiq kind,,of experience.

.t:ffrd,,d ailddestr.yed. , : ,. . :haunting memory. . " kept alia, e," You'jus3_ didn't die..The The .tl'ue'and'worthy li_vel 0f:Chris"Ju,st an old ealendm', t' someone Time'is swift, Well has thd .hymn days were .pe_riocls to be gotten tiati liv_g must be characterized by

might i:emm;k; hut as I "meditated "on "'writer sung. "Swift to its close eblJs . through and to be filled _'ith this and deep devotion and:'a saerificial spirit•dl,_situation,-thatod reorder:came t)ut life's little day."' In'tl3e earlier that: :If yoh" "spent. the title." ihen Also. Was it a _piritually.sensitive

to have a meaning and a message.of . d/ears of life_ time _eems to pass'so time was'your master and •1952 was year? Was your hem't open to" the

Time! IItTc.wasflm essence of that live io¢? long 16 sense the apparentlY, .. - squand/_red. Another priceless, ir-:: respond to His . guidan_'e: to the

i 'message. Am_ther major unit of time qhiekenihg pace of l:ime. And those . • retrievable unit of probation was proinptings and chei:ks of the Holyi had passed, aml 1 wosimprr'ssed that, _ their seventies and eighties are. treated with- itadlfference. Another: Spirit?

if we could, understand "all that an unanimous in their, testimony cqnr . . " ybai"s record was written ."in the "And what was the measure of your,• .hi 6olendar 'means; :we would .be eerning the swift passage of.tiine: ' The '- red." " .- . '" activity? Were you'willing t:o sit b_¢

movdtl, t.[l mast serious tb0ught aad .W2)rd of God reminds us. "The time Btlt We need" not just- spend the and rest while others carried :'the;refh,etioa. Surely -time represents is •short."- '_ " _- time: we can invest in, time, - Ttie- burdens of the Kifigd0m? Was there.no of the m_st solemn of ,all the _ ' " " Wart] of God:emphasizes the:i'dc,_ of some element of faith in your.service,elements of existence, and it behooves -. 2. The Mea'ning.o_ Time "redeeming the time." This means to impelling you to a broader vision'andtm oil t¢i give it our interest and con- Time _s a g_{t of God. and thus, vet':/" , ".buy up".time; to consider its high a greater outt;each?..Did your lmart

_: sideratian, precious.' It should not be treated' " woi'th, and to,make an,investment in reach "around the _;vorld" in concm'n

:It sevli_s,tlmt humanity is nnwilling - lightly or cal'elessly. One might better , it. e))en at tim east of.sacrificing ease for the lost? All of these ai'e legifitnate" and pleasure, Th_s _s the only attttude, questions from the old year, ,Io fa/:6 the. _ssucs of time. [h earlier east "awaydiamonds and pearls'than ' " ; ' _ ' "' ' "..... "

days one could "hem'" tl_e time pass, to take.an indifferent, apathetic atti- worthy of. an immoi'tal soul.' .But." possibly- the answer to thei_ _,ithth6 "tiel¢-t(_ek.tick-tock" of the tudc toward time. . .... . • question of'service for God is "No:"_, clock. Bi_t now we':have well-nigh . . Time 'represents -oppcwtunity, In " II. THE OLI)'YEAR"HoLI)S COUI1T" . That .means that :{he-year "past has

elimimded such timepieces, substitut-. time is found out.period.of probation, " Most people disiike involvementin bvena year of rejection or spir.i.tual"inq" a elevm' gadget that spins around our period of stewar.dship. What .we court proceedings. There.seems'to he carelbssness. Through another .veerm_isolessty, wit!i n6 indication, of the do with time determines what eterni- "a basic:anlipathy- to examination.and ym:_r heart has been rebellioustoward

• imssing_of, tiiim, But tiinc is still fi " t3' will.do With us. It is,our period of jndgmen!. Too many •times we are the will of God and you have h'efused• pm'l _if exist'once find bdars a vital choices, of. determining our attitude prone to "guess" our Way th.rough, to accept divine mercy as proffered it

relationship to etci:nity'. : " " toward.God and our i'elationship to This is. evidenced, for exmnple, in Jesus Christ.. Youi" heart has .been

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i hardened by twelve more mimths of will'be difficult. Tile world is filled : " " "

sin. As the ol#l year holds court, you with turomil a.ud. niystery. Great " The Significance of Pentecost. ' ,must answer for this failure. You forcea move antong men. forces which

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need to'.be 'remimled that billy tile few understand, and about which it" " Part 'IRhreo - ' - " • "will of Go.d.wilI eounL in eternity, seems we can do little or nothing. But : " " " "

2. Personal Relation to Others tbese.are times .to belleve'God, to see. - . ' ' • • ._" His vision, anti to'understai_d the suf_ PenteCost Signifies Divine Purification

Huma,n relationships :are. not smile- fieiency of divine resources, Surely. " " " "thing apm:t fr6m., spiritual life. The '_"God is able ".in 1953 "' * " "fact is that Jesusmade clcm" the truth " : . , . Let this grip By Chas. W. Carter , . ..

• . your soul. Let this stimulate your. . . . - .

• that both are interrelated, faith. Let tbis reassure • _oUr heart, "! "And..there appeared tmto-them r,piritual- Kingdom w.hicb Christ badHow did gee ire-at your'Christian "God i_'able." :

" brethren? Jesus Christ, .identified : . tongues, pa_ting asunder. [parting promised to them. Before the inner• • .. _

himself with His pe(_ple: Thns 6ur . 2.: Per.smml"Pfogress . ' " among them, or distributing thenar reign of Christ could be fully realized

attitnde toward the people of.:God is .Tlleyear, 1953 (fan-be one.Of deeper selves], .like as."o] ]ire; and it sat : in theil" li_'es thei'e nmst'lie an irlneran il:idicaUoii" of,ottr.tru?relat ohsh p spiritual life• In the coming twetve . Ul)oi_ "each one 'o_ thcw" (Acts 2:3, _lun'ificatioli. a consuming-Of the inner .toward God: '.We c;mnot. .love Christ months we can love G0d.m_re than A.S.V._. . . . . nature, of self and sin,. a reliowti, ionand not 10re _Iis people: .You cannot ever in (Jut lives.'We can know more John. the Baptist s prophetic-words of e_'ery •secret :eh,'unbcr of the-soulhe right with.God aml mlst_eat•God's m' His Word. We'can Understand His " concerning Christ are here:fulfilled: .that re)thing foreign or opposed" to

" " the nature of God might remain With- •people. Any spirit'of bit:to;moss criti- will more pei'fectly:, In 1953. our sym- _ . l ittdeed, baptize you in.ware# unto re- " "

'_ 'cisha. env:/..oi"legalistie judgment.'int- pathies" can be'bi'bader, our"spirit -- peatanee:..but lie that'eoneth alter toe"is in. It was God'_ purpose that His

tl" _ mediately condemns ihe individual :more Christlike, and our attitude mightier.than I, whose shoes I am'not disciples-should be so inwardly pure . ._llx.ol'thy to bear; lie llhall baptize yol_'iu the that they•might declare their inde-guilty of such. What a revival would more eheouraging'to ot_h_ers. "

1rely Spirit and in fire:, whose ]an'is ill, pend_nce of-the "ddmain ofsin and[,. brbTik oat if all pi'ofbssing Christians " " )ds hand;and he will thorou0l.dl# clemtse, liis

recognized this truih! . . . 3. Attitude Toward Service tllreshilig-JlOtl_; and t. he. 'will gather /,is tl_e devil as did Christ when He said." And what.of, the world? "Have you We'can do more for God in 1953 .... " " 1 teat "tnto't e .gnl;let'. bid t e 'chaff .he "£1m prince of the World [Satan]

" : carried any bui'deri i'or the lost? 'Have " If. we draw nearer to Him, we shall " iJJill biilm up with lolquenchable lil:e (Matt: eometh: add'he hath nothing.in,rob':" _ " - . . . 3:11-12, A.S.V.). (J0lm'_.4:3O_ A.S.V.). There was to

i _ you irfhde any. effort toward the. sal-- sense a lletv mea,_pre:o_.responsl.bib-ration of sbuls?:Wc_ li'Te in a:tinl_ of I:yarid'of opportutiitY. These are days , Thl_re. are two: things about this he ,ira .elain3 foreign to.the claim of

"l " great distress nn¢t needi and "yei that call for initiative.had an'aggi:es-. Pentecostal l_henontenom _.vhich--at- Cinqst i4pon-.nor within the lives Of"

_ thousands of prefi_ssihg'Chri._t'lns do' "sire spirit h_: Christian _ser,)ice The. rest the reader's attention, : namely, these disciples o.f Jesus,' .':iaothing.about._Vinning souls to Christ• yeai 1953 should be a Yell" of levivals, its meaningfind its administration. • " For the purpose of this inner-pl.iri-. ' " " ficatioit God re_,eals himself to the

:_i It is impossible to be Whdlly the of opening new ehurches_ of extending - Tim MEANXNGOF:TilE To_l:Itr.gs o_' b'_i'_ waiting disciples under _Lhesymbol of_: Lord's, al:ld have no vital interest in our Work at home arid ,'ibroa'd: of

His burden and mission. . giving to many .more thousands the The meaning of the phenmnenon Of "cloven tongties of fire.'•' ConsistentlyThese quegtions of_relationship to glorious news o!'full salvation, the tongues of /ire 'on. the Day of throughout, theScriptures fire is'era,

• , " Pentecost is not fal: to seek. It must ployed,hs a symbgl of divine purifi-others are pi'oper..mad, should be n "Redeeming tbe'time"! We can do be borne in mind "that ]t_ _he Pente- cation. Fire has ever been a symbol

; partof our judgoient in the light of it:.V_e face a year of wanderful privi,_ costal effusion God was manifesting of. the holiness raid"justice of•God•'i . the 91d year. lege.. Sinne'rs dan" find. mercy and or revealing "himself primarily 1{othe . Thus God revealed -himself to His

•" llI. THz NEW.: ¥_An O_r'EaS C-H^L- pardon: Christian believers can fie." believing •disciples of Jesus Chi'ist worthy servants in aneient'ti_esL_a_GE' ' d61ivered from inner, siu and filled who on. the Day of Pentecost. "were.. (Deut, 4:24; Ezek: 1:4;" Exod: •3:2;

-with the Holy. Spirit. ,i:Sanctified "all tdgether in erie place." They had 19: 18; Is_a, 6: 4_ Dan. 7:11)) . ."_ One ofthe • most eneooraglng ele--_hearts can draw nearer to the heart "' _ given up the world and had dedicated Malachi prediqted fl_e coming and

,_ _ ments of life and time is the p0ssibility of G6dand can•rendei'.more effective • theIfiselvesin faith to the pursuit and the work of Chris! under the symbol • ".,_ of imprc)venent.. The J:oming •year . service, • -'" " execution' of the'wiU Of God in<-christ, of fire, " "

offers reich a c'hallenge to is'all; As' we i'emove the old calendar and At last their h.opes of an earthly king- ', " ' • . " . . '1. The Adequac_s'o]God _ replace it.with one for '1953. let us - ,dora .were forever gone. _:(See Acts The Lord, whom.ye seek, _ill suddenly

In 1953 weean sense, as never he- 151edge toGod our best: to_ profit by 1:6, 7,) ,The_ w.ere now'in earnest co,he,to his temple; lind the ,ae_lsenger.oftile covenant Whom ye desire; beheld, he

foi'e.'thi_ eompletb, unfailing adequacy the weaknesses of 1952, andlo enter and: desperate pursuit' bf the. irmm:, eon_e'th, salth Jehouidt of hosts. Bit whoof God. 'rim days Of tile coming year. fully into.the opporttinities of 1953.

• . " *Professor of OhltasophyannMIs_ions, Marion College CI11l P.b e tile dfel.oj i,i_ CO_liJli_l,9. and who

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• .,.,,, j,ro: s,..o-'so,u,: theassembledChurch,and " ' The re Of Positive Preachingand he mi(ts]t .a._a re/iller altd purilier of mass oversilvtr, alt_l It! _,,ill puril,i the seats.of. Levi, then divided, oim flame or tongue sit- - -

_it{ a,,d re.fin, them ,,s gold a,,d silver: find they tins upon the head of each disciple" " ' By Edwin Raymond Anderson*• . " s tdl oif,_r 1 t dehobah offerings in right- (A Commd?_tary on the Hol_l Bible, " .

co_tsncss (Mal. 3:1-1{, A.S.V.) " J.R. Dun'_melow, Ed., p, 820). This -DArdL'S exhortativegommand to bis work in the "hearts and lives of the- Likewise in His post-Ascension and fire-symbolized unity of God so di- . L. youngfriend and colaborer. Tim: bearers. "It is theWord which points _r

Second Coming appearancesJesus is versified and mdiv dualized tself as.represented under thb symbol of fire .to meet on an individual and personal [ othy, as recorded in the last inspired up the impoi'tance, marks the validity(Rev, 1 12-18). Even the Word of" basis :the hem't conditioo and need 9f writing" to come" from his pen and of these exercises, both for the benefit •

• God is tikened unto fire, _'Is not my ea;ch.'pf the one hundred arid twenty . heart, cemes home to many with re.- of those towards, whom they are'el-' " disciples at the same, time. And :so.. hewed emphasis., for these latter days. rected and. for the .praise and-glory

w_u'd like rfire?saith Jehovah" (:Jcr. .God.tim Holy. Spirit ever deals with In so many ways and throt_glI various .of that living Lord who-through the.. - " 23: 29..A:S.V.). ' " " channels--some of 3vhich rfiay appear Woi'd is coneern6d about the right and.

Finally, God himself is repleesented His cbihtren, in saving .or sanctifying .•" surprming Whenrelated tothe Scrip. proper relationship of -the h.e artefficacy.' Thei'e nmy be andfrequent-. ". tures--the Word is emphasized arid towards.himself. The work of reprov-

by the author of the letter to the ly is a general nanifestation of Ged's ,Hebre'ivs. under, the' symbol :of fire. " " struck.out, anew and afresh as.the one.. ins and '? r'eb:uking and exhorting is"Our God is aconsuming fire" (Heb.:. presence to .His "_oeople, but at the ' "" " - 1 n n bsolute cote of qaat which more necessary than hither'to i'eal-12:29). Thus it Was God the Ho!y same time the dealings of God aridt the smg,e a ..,-p. , ., . . . " .....- * ' " qm 1-" _ of that nature lzed Jf the mimstrybe worthy of. theenters lnto-_ mat'.roB . ,,_ .. • , - • .' ' • .• administration of His grace are al- . -Spirit in consuming fire Who mare- ways on an.individual a_d personal of preaching which: in the truest and ' name and of the Lord m whose name

• " tested himself n cloven tongues "like basis: Ofthis phenomenon G. Camp- highest •sense of the word, may be if.is.set forth. 'Anal it is only as there..

!_ 3 as of fire" to the. disciples on'the Day bell Morgan has said. '.'The symbol of .termed _'positik, e,"" both for. the prin- are set forth under'flag authority'ofof Penteepst,'. purifying, sanctif:_ing fire-:r'tongties . . of fire.' a plurfility, eiplesof its setting forth and the evi- and dependehee upon the Wor.d bf

t! their inner natures. 0nd aunity, the tongues were many; dences of fruitage and blessing, lhe" Lord,• and actualized under thesensitive leadership.of the Holy Spirit," ' " . " but the, fire was one" (The Acts oS There canbe: no doubt.as to the that there is healthy accomplishment,

! ,_ ADMINISTRATIONOF TIIE'ToNGUES Of . the Apostles, page24) " " _ passage, in mind. It is the Word so Quite significantly, the decline.of theFIRE . " " " " ' "

_1 - Finally, at :ihe'. first great general: familiar that it is.perhaps often passed ...recognition and admission.of this cen- "But the administrhtion of•the cloven (_hristian :council held at Jerusalem by, in. one sense or another, because tral fact also cdrrcspond'.s to the, de-

i!. t0ngfies of [ii'e at Pentecost likewise in.^ D.50Peter speaking in defense of t m familiar ty with the sentence cline of this phase'o_:the x_,ol'k of thearrests our attention. Although ".there of the gospel for the Gentiles, declared and its sounding. "Preach the:word ministry., Apart from. the. positive •: • crone from heaven the sound..'i._ of .q that .their purification was on the. " - . be instant' in season, out of season; Wo'_d, eyerything: becomes..negative,

.: _ rqshing mighty :vine" which "filled. same basis as that of tile disciples_ reprove, rebuke,.exhort with alllong- and all too clearly and quickly betraysall the house _vlmre they wer'_ sit-..-at Pentecost... Said Peter.."And God. " suffering and doctrine" (II.Tim. 4:2). it_ hollowness, or the-mere exercise

' I .It is clearly to be noted that all of the . of human passmns'and inclir_ations:ting,'_ and "although here was. tbe" "who knoweth tile heart, bai'e thmia. """ " pr0ctlces and occupations herein men, For this" reason did the. inspired .general.or mass appearapee of" fire, witness, girth9 them the'Holy'Spirit; -. - .

"_ -' tlais fire parted asufider, or parted . even as he did unto .us;: and he "naade tioned in connection'wit h the prosecu- apostle stres._ the:hecess!ty of "preach!_ anmng them,,distributeditself.among no distinction between us and them, tion of that Which is termed- "tee the " . "" word and.stress it as a command.

them individtially and .thus while cleansing their hearts by.]aith". (Acts 1.. Chiqstian ministry'".are centered upon received'.directly from the Lord, toPentecost wasinitialing a st/dden gen- 15:'8, 9, A.S.V.). At _this juncture the and derived wholly from.the admin- .be given directly in the same manner

I Adam Clarke i.4 " istration ofthe single and•clear and and n_easure to the young friend and: cralpanymanifestatiOnof.waiting, believing°fGod to.dlsciples,thecorn- testim0nYcant..."Cbrist°f" baptizes "with theSignift'Hbly whole trtie Word of theliving? God, co-workers Wlao s'hould carryon. Em-_. as God.beganto admiaister.His purl- Gh0st forthe.destruction of sin. the It." is the Word •which g_:ants the phasis isg!ven to this 'fact, when it._ tying efficacy.to tliose disciples H6 did' illumination of the mind, and the " " authority to these necessary adminis-

'i so,,on an .individual "and personal. basis, consolatlOn of the heart." " .- ; .trations. It _s the Word which undel': iSbookreallZedwhiehthathasthisoftent_xl_been°Ceui'Stermedintlie.. • . writes'them with the assurance of the•"Swan S0ng of Paul,"' seeing thatAnd there appeared ' unto them In conclusion, the tongues,:of fire • the strength and eon_'iction Of the it isthe last inspired writing to come

tongue_" parting hsunder, :like as of ";¢ere the manifesthtion of God's.'per- " " Holy Spirit of God,'apart from which from his pen. The last.words of thisfire: and it sat upon each "one: o] sonal, purifying presence to the.inner, there is, nothing whicb will in any valimat warrmr for the Lord direct..them." The following is ia pertinent" •observation on this passage: "St. lnapul:e fifitures o_the d!sc]ples, mak- wise trtily accomplish-the necessary the attention, challenge the in.te]lect,."

Luke .means that .the tongiaes or (Continued on page 44) " " "" *Waterbury,,Co.,_:ucut .. soeure', the emotions, not _to.the'war-

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the Lord of the warrior! Paul is con- surrendbred the positive primacy Of The Prayer Life of the .Soul • Winner

-" cerned about the prdcious person of the Wm'd of God to the level of Scho:- And Intercessorthe.Permanent OnE, surely not about • 'lastic interpretation according • to thel)is own passing, as far as the primary. )ncasure' of.human inclination, Hay-

" matters are concerned..In the review log cut loose from this commandof By Arnold R. Carlson, JrY " "of his'work, and in the understanding Paul, there could be naught save that • - :

?'_/ .of that which lay before as previously p.aflmt_c shipwreck which is," so ap- I TExts: Ruth 2:7---And .she said, workers, God has established a cam-indicated to him. according to the parent on every liand.' - "[ .I pra?I youcletme glenn and gather mufication sys tem between "our" • : after the 'rea]_ers among thcsheaees; .hearts. and His "throne. This cam-

'. • mind of the Lord: he saw quiteclearly In afar better, sense, this phrase is so.she craw, and hath continued even munlcation system., is prayer.' Theand altogether d stinctly.tlr_ Ur mal b i oint _ " ....." ' ", r .... . ,,... " eng'p eu up oy me evangensuc tram'the morning until now,'that-slie marvelous feathre of this system isnecessity,or.tne tall entpnasts Doing r " ' " " _' "" --" "' " ' " "• _ ' " , ........... attics ann gospel movementswinch tarridd'h little in the house, that we have direct contact with the

placer upon.tnq mmmucauon at me . are being carried on in the various _Matt. 9.3'8-_--:Pray" ye therefore the " thrbne of grace. We denot have to.Word of the Lord as the Word of the paris, ofthe.nation attracting an at- .Lord of the harvest, that lie will seed go. through switOlboards, or .wait on

.. . Lord, with all respect sand intelligefice tent:on, from quarters hitherto con- "1orth lab'ourers bite his harvest, operai&'s,, or be delae;ed because" " concerning its t_nlque position-and sidered i_/'eligious or sop.histieated., someofie else'is6n,_the line. We have

un'challenged testimony. Thus the Consider, for example, the news-space -" • . INTnODUCTIOI_/ a wire that goes straight:through tb .' "word goes along to Timothy and sure- . _ ......... _... - anu.ramo ann tmewsmn arden,ion oe- God in His'.rich providence and care• the heart of God, -Because we are His! "ly _long to us in these.closing days of _ . . . ., _..;. _ .,. "

._ .. .,, -. ,, . mg given .to me 1511ty t_r_anam cam- ..has planned thd. advancement of His partners, God. expects ds to. keep thegrace-_-.Preach the.word Brethren . - . • .. ; '-. .- : .... " od urel pmgns; anu'consmer now. zree zrom , . kingdom, uponthe earth through the line busy. In God's directory, the Holy

• the matter .of thin comma s Y former hi,asand sarcasm mUeh o£'that co-operation and help of His children." .Bible, wb have hill instructions on the"command._ tim inclii3ation..and scru- attenti6n is. Even those of otherwlse .... " ' Tile GreatCommission that fell from importance, place,'and use of prayertin,-of our _nirii_teria] life and ser'die_, theologiqal dispositions grant the in- " the lips of the "Saviour just before He " in 6iar lives.

both as indicative of its. _,orth, and tcresf and worth of thes.e, evangelistic . . disappeared from the p_'esenee of His •In eonsiderin_g the prayer life of•the like indication of wherein we may enterprises. : And .quite slrfilbly, the' disciples was this: "Go ye'into all the :the soul winner and intercessor, we

have failed: We are to be wholly con- whole suc'cess of these movements can world; and preachthe gospel to every, must face._these questions. Are wecerned with the Word of'God, and far be simply'traced to _he fact and truth creature"; but first, '!Tarry ye in the. fullyaware of the part lJhat G6d ex-more concerned in further rafiges and " "

of a clear,, whole obedience to this. city of Jerusalem ufftil yehe endued pects prayer to play in our li_,es?.Aredeeper reaches tlmri perho_s'.hithcrto inspired c o m m a n'd--"Preae, h " the with power from on high,'! and, "Ye .. we conscious of" the promise's" that-

realized! . word." Thelcentral place :is given to. shall receive power, after that the Christ has given us in answer tO,This'phrase of Paul's is being..point- the Word of God, thht: Word which Holy Ghost iff come upon you; and ye pr_/yer? Does our i3rayer life meeisure

cd up and illuminated from:mah3" He has declared in.l'Iistestirimny "He " ' ' ". "shall 'be witnesses, unto me both .in up to GodYs standard? Are we mak-.quarters, .all of which sh9uld, speak shall he pleased td honor. Men of .Jerusalem, "and in all Judae_a, and'in, ing the full use of prayer" that':Godto our heai-ts. "First, there.i_ the evi- earth, tired, and spent ai3d. xvern, de- Samaria, and unto the uttermost part expeets"us to?" In order to find an: .

" .dent bankruptcy.of liberalism.:in.the sire a word from heaven to meet their ' ] of the earth" (Acts .1;8). God has a_swet; to these questions ' w_ mustface of two ghastly world wars in the state and need: They.realizi_ that any given the "blessed Holy "Sp.irit, the turn to the Word of God'."fir.qt half 'of this vaunted twentietla" word of earth, however finely dressed Third .Person of -the glorious. Trial- -ceutury:..One has 'dnly to sur_/ey the is :_'of the earth_ earthy,"'and ,so' be- " ,, ty,: the Executive of the Goqthead, • "I.'.TiiE PRAYER LIFE OV JESUSliterature put:out by those of .this ' traysits inherent weakness and "ob- " " - unto• us, to, . cleanse our 'hehrts, io- " .theolpg[cal disposition: listen to their vious "limitation. Only the "high and fill Uswith.himself, and:to empower'. It would be, impossible for us to

preaching, or attend any of their gatla- • clear word fl:om heaven, via the Word ": l: us for service. We are co-workers ; find a .be ttei" example to follew thanerings, to observe thi s b_inkruptcy in of God, can_and does--meet :.the" With God. This is oui" great "privi- Jesus in our prayer life. Jesus was

• •. pathetic action. Gone is the. pride of heed in marvelous measure, lege. God, the Creator arid Sustain- a Man'of prayer: • .

man With his swathings'of'science'and Brethren, it is our .busines_ tostay er of the universe, has called, on In Luke, we read ihgt when Jesushonqr of humanism, to he. replaced by long i!v m:edliafion "to very heart's " " us to beHis partr;ers m telling the was baptized of John.Jn the Rivet'a frantic note of "emergency survival" . depths" with this Pauline presemp- . . good news of a Sa':,iour_ God's only JordanHe was praying as'the heavenswhich has reduced man to a pitiful tlon "Pre/ach _he word.": The Word - .. " begotten Son, who has come to save were'opened unto Him; Immediately

• nothing to he Swept about hy ill.winds is to be'prefic/md in all heralding of us from all sin and to .redeem tis for after His baptism, Jesus wasled ofof a dying world. But tlie I_finltrnptcy himself. Because we are H_s co- the Spii'it into the "&ilderness, where '

i: of liberalism fiad..aiready been pr6- . . (Coattmted on:pt_fite 661 .._o it _rt_¢ntedta tt_'N. CallL t.lta,ar C0nnntl*n He. fasted and .prayed. for f0rt_/ days

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TIand forty nights. We read in Mark the Thy redemption, 0 believer,. is a will reward .thee openly." Jesus is_ There'is a twofold witness, a twofold

• I fi_:st .chapter, _'And in the morrling, redemption wrought out by. prayer theref_Jre teaching us that we, as His leading , a twofold Work and a twofold

_:i rising irp a great "while before day_ and intercession: thy Christ is_i pray, children, and as soul winners and in-, " intercession. We .pray ift the Spirit,' i . . he went out, _3nd departed into a'soli- ing.Clu'ist: the life He lived for thee, tercessors, mu_t have our secret.closet and the Spirit makcth intercession for

tary Place. ai_d there p eyed. When the life He lives inthee, is a praying or private chamber'for, pl"ayer. The us; ''2 .!, He was pressed on every side "b_) the life. that: de]igi_ts to wait on God and secret place of prayer is whci'e we go The Hol_¢ Spirit has.come unto 'us

.. . multitudes who canto to bear Ills. "receive all from Him. ''1 to get away from people and things, . to'guide us into all truth and to reveal

[ i wards of eternal life and to have flmir Siuce Jesus was a Man of •Prayer to be alone •with Go@. :It is the _lace unto us _hc deep things of God. He. where we. pray_ not. to be heard of hasmot come to glorify himself.'butsick healed, He' withdrew himself and His en'tlre life w.as lived.in the.

men'. but rather have fellowship and . rather to glorify the Sori. It is His in:into the desert and prfiycd- (Llake atmosphere of prayer, He is therefore "'communion with- God. Tbe Pharisee .dwelling presence that makes it possi- "5:16) i, Before • He chose- His twelve fully qualified -to. be our Teacher in " sta0d andprayedloudly with himself; hie for,us in all things to nmke Chrisldisciples, "He went out into a moun- the seh6ol _f prayer• We enter into - wecome htimbly into the secret pla:ce pro-eminent in oui' lives. "And, as thetats.to pray, and continued all night this school of prayer with".the same "in prayer to God" '(Luke 6:12), The _ , . - " and pray to God,' _ur Father: Holy Spirit has come t0 revedl untourgent request that. the ehseAples

.glory of the Transfiguration was pro- made: "Lol:d,_tea_:h us to.proy." " It i_ strongly implied in the teach -•• us the SOia and to glorify Him, soweceded by Hi/_ going up ihto a mountain ings of Jesus that, if we are to.have in turn, being the temples of the Holy

• i to pray (Luke 9:28). , . " tI. .Ti_E :TE,icuzr_as OF JEdos .' " a satisfying and successful.pra._Cer life, Spirit, are to glorify the Son.Jesus in. His high priestly prfiYer :. " CoNc_:aniNo Pa^vEa we must have our secret closet. There-. This grealest of all treasures takes

' forel the first'thing that the child of tip His abode in earthen, vessels,

![ " themPrayedthatf°rHiSweuld'disciplesbelieveandon.fOrHimalla SinCeManofWeprayer,hax;eseefit]latthat.HeJeSUSp_atintoWaS_." God, the sofll winner and intercessor, " which are weak and subject to limita-througla, their word.. He.. prayed,_for practice in His life the'prinCiples of must have is his secret chamber,of tions and i/ffirmitics. "Because this is• - prayer• true. we often find. ourselves at a lossPeter that be nught withstand the prayer, and by experience Became

sifting of Satan_He prayi_d'.ifl agony, an Authority on prayer; we unhesi- "B. Praying in thoSplri_ as "to how to pray.and for.'xvhat_to;; and perspiration.flowed:from Hisbrow pray. But this need not lead us to.:" as it' Were:gr_at drbps of'blood in the ifitingly bow ourselves in submission (Eph_'6:118; Jude 20) despair, foi" we are told in Romans: ""- to Him. "Lard. teach us to prayY - -_ • garden of'Gethsemane the night be- Once" again we must turn to thb Gos- The next lesson thai: 'Jes'us Would. "Likewise the Spirit also belpeth our

fore His ci'ucifixion. On the cross, I-ie • have us learn,'after we'have entered .infirmities: for we know not wh/_t we

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pe s and the wratmgs of the .apostles' prayed, "Father. fro'give them:, foi; in order to.stud:¢ the teachings of'our into the secret chamber, is that we should prayfor as we ought I_ut the

they kn'ow not what they do.": And Master concerning prayer. . m_ast pray in the-Spirit. Paul, in'writ2 ' S15irit itself maketh ir_tercession for

I . then. crying out in the.darkest me- ing to the Ephesians, said: "Praying us with greenings" which cannot be

' ment of His'life, "My God, my God. A. The Secret Chamber of Prayer always with'all prayer and'supplica- uttered. And..he that searcb'eth" tlie

wh_ hast thou forsaken me_" We z_ead On one occasion while Jesus and ] _tion in tl?.e•Spirlt" (Eph. 6:18). Jude,. hearts knoweth what. isthc mind of "furtbet" that even_'nnw, -this very mo, His disciples were in the Temple, a in writink to th0se who are•sanctified the Spirit, because he maketh inter-

ment, Jesus is sitting at the right hand : Pharisee _ame in and .stood in a . said; You can only b e budded up an cessmn for the saints according to tlae. of the Father, ever making intei'ces-" pt:ominent place, and with "a ' loud' your most holy faith :"by prayirlg in will of G0d!' (Rbm._8: 26-27} .. .

sins.for us. " . _'oice, Which was heard by all, he the Holy Ghost" (Jude. g0}: The Hol_/ Spirit prays with our-

'i The power that'was His,. theglory prayed, "God, I thank.thee, that I am . It_ is very essential that we learn . Spirit, and He"who searches our"" that was His in "the Transfiguration. n'ot as other men are, extbrtio'ners,.un, this lesson early in our.Christian life. hearts knows the mind of.the Spirit,

i_ _" the iniraeles He performed and _liat just adulterers, or even as this pub-. [" We must pray in the Spirit.-Of course, .and the Holy Spirit reveals t.o us the.hfe' whtchwaspure"' spotless,.and_ gtv-"' ._ hcan'.' "I fast twice in {he week,,, I' give . " to pray. in. the .Spirit means that we :..will of God,. .All true prayer is in-!.! i • en for 'others_ flowed o'ut. ofa life tith'es of.all that "I .possess. (Luke must be filled with'-the Spirit. : The spired by the Holy Spirit.:-Thls'fact

: _ 1 bathed in prayer. We Cannot behold 18: 1I, 12). It was: sceneslike this one work of the Spirit. is one of co-qpera- zhows' [he fiecessity of being filled'

._ "Him in His ..humility, glbry; power, that brought about the teaching of "" ".'.'-I tiofi. Th_ Holy Spirit heeds us and with the Spirit.. Thls_ therefore is the" majestic, and reden_otive work' with- praying irt the Secret chamber. Jest/s depends on us to work with Him, second lesson't_aat:Jesus woiald have -out thinking of' H_ as a Man of 'had said, "When ye pray/, do not be . . and we in turn need Him. In fact, us learn in'the school'of prayer. Weprayer. Andrev( Murray has said: like the Pharisees.who pray to,be :- :' . we cachet get along without Him. must pray in the Spirit. This lesson"Christ's life and Work, His suffering heard of men, but rather enter the. . - And, as Chadwiek .has stated it: must be learned well by all whoand death--it was all prayer ,' all de- ' secret closet and there pray .in secret: " "There is.the sanie co-oper._tion in all WouId' be soul winners and" interces- 'pendenc'e on God, trust.in God, re- andthy Father which sooth.in secre_ . the experience 9f salvati0n..-There is sors.

' " _" " " " always a human anda divine factoi'. ' - "ceiving from God, "surJ'ender "to God. ._,_r,,_ _urr_g. '_T_t l_lnlstr_ 0f Intercession." p 136 . _Chad_lck, "The Path of Pr_yer," m 52. .

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C. "PrayiTtg to the Father ings of the Word'of God (in whorl.to " This does.not mean'that we need a vital part ofour prayer life. Paul

One of the greatest revelations that pray and'the ki lds :of prayer, no,secret closet or family altar." We tells us that this is the will of God in

Jesus made to I_is disciples .was -that A, When to Pr¢zy . do need them; we. conner get along Christ Jesus'concerning us, God waits

Gqd i_ our F.ather. When. the disciples, "Paul, in writing m the Ephesians, without thmn. The danger is that we for our praises and our thanksgiving.)n seeing,Jesus praying, i_mne to Hial. bxlim'ts then(to i)r_w always "witl_"all " enter into the secret closet and have ' To praise Him helps us to realize morewith .the request, "Lord teach us'to ' ' "ou_" family altars, and then go through fully what Christ "me_/ns to us per-"

'l pray;" Jesus instructed them'to begin, 'prayer and supplication in.the Spirit" : ' the day withbtit.once thinking of the sonall_,: To praise Him" helps us to"Our Father Which art in heaven:" (Eph. 6:18); arid in writing:to the ..... spiritua'l needs of others..Our thoughts realize, in greater measure than ever• • .... - Coloasians Paul g veg them a word

' • No longer are .we aliens Without .a , . _. .... are occupied with.our lobs and our- before, au.r. complete dependence-- _... • - - oz. encouragement, oy telling tllem " ' "• _ • country; no longer are we mere serv= - "..... • • selves. Let's.' live in "the..spirit of upon Him. Our praises are to bea t i "h '- " " _" " _ :'( , . that noIs praying always- for thou ". n s n t e nousenmu oz lalm .ou_- , ............ • " prayer dontinually, Let us live in an spontaneous and are to spring from a

.' Illrough the precioi_s blood of Christ (._ol_ ±: _). _nd, later m. the .same • " .atmosphere of prayer: Lord,. teach us heart that is.grateful and fullof love""_ " epistle, ne _ exhorts then to "con_ • 'we have become adopted soils and ' , " , .... " to pray continually;'Lor_t, teach us to God for the great salvation He has

.. . ;, .. . '_ . .-_ , " tmne in prayer aha waten, l i t le same" ' " "' oaugmers or tile xmgnon el teen, .... .... • • -_ , -, ..... to know wbat it means to pray with- " wrought in us....L, L., t,_ 1- ,_ . .. WIHI tnalu_SglVIOg (.L:o _t:£;.I, .lo tile . • " - .-wlllCii IS, an, - lnrlcrltance l lcorrup[l- " m," ' , • - - ,, ' .out ceasing. . ,,ole,....... unaenlen;' ann" tnat"_ .mnetn_" ' nell lnessalomans; no.wrote Pray.. with ..... " : 2. Prayin9 "out 1or another. .

.; • , .... . out ceasing" (I Thass. 5:i7). " - ]_: Types o] Prayer• .away. Go d bids 'us to come to Him . One of- the things thatbinfls God's. as His sons we have the same-right . .Just' '_,bat ddes Paul mean by the

t " of access into His p/'esence as a son phrases. "pi:aying always," qcon[inue' Tm'ning once again to the Word of people'closer together is praying "one•_ " has tohis earthly-fatherl and if our in prayer ". and _.'pray Without ceas- _ God, we see by example and by teach, for.another?' We are commanded to• .l.... ........ n "_ " " . • • ing -that.there are" different types of pray "one fo_" another," If one is

e ! - :earthly father welcomes us. into his I g . 'Does.he mean that.we should_t :_ . prcsenee'_ how much more will ohr be Iiterally praying all the iime? It ' -prayer..Each of these types has:its sick, dr has fallen into temptation, or"

_ " " " HeaveniSe Father admit us 'int6. His[ 'isthe firm conviction of.the present " . I5|ace in the prayer life of':the SouI • if one.isin need, we are to.pray forwriter that Paul means for us to in- . .... winnei' and.intercessor. "- hhn. Prayer. ties the. bond of fellow-

; D roy,.i.the ameJes.s ,erpretthesewordsliteral,Our ves prayerpr,,,e.,,dtl, l_. .Wheri we enter into the presence of are to be .bathbd wKh prayer, lived in :.: . gtv,tng • . _ • .: .r about anog't£er_s faults_ we are to pray_ our Heavenly Father, We areto make the spirit_of prayer every moment-of Paul, ii_:his first letter to the i:hurch for him: It would help (is individual-

our requests" _ind.petitions kn0wn every day. If wewould try to pray of Thessalonica, wrote "Rejoice ever- ly and it would helpour churches ifunt°'Him, asking these things of Him.. always on our own, we would 'no ' more. 'Pray.without _easing. _n'every all the Christians "wo_.Id learn thisin the name of Jesus. "All the prorhises doubt find it" in/possible;" but a s6ul i

• thinggive.tha _ks: fo_'this.i_ the will secret, "Pray one for another." " In "'.. "in the Word of God have as one.of that is filled with'tlm Holy Spirit, and of God in Christ Jesus concerning this.day when the powers of dark-" their conditions that we ask them in 'is cbnscious of the needs about him, you" (I Thess. 5'.16-18): r_ess are doing their _best to defea__" the name of Jesus," Jesus ht_] said, will naturally resort in pyayer.: Soul . ..:

"And whatsoever ye'shall ask in m5/ . winners and intercessors are not blind From personal " experience, t h c the very elect, let us pray, one for. thename, that will I do that the Father" "to the" Spiritual needs, suffering, and writer has fdia)_d it _ sourde, of real' other..If you" see faults in your rain*

may be.gl0rified in the Son; if ye sorrow .that are prevalent, .in our blessing to b.egin.his prayers by prais- 'isteri.pray for him rather than tell.:shall ask any thing in my name. I world. The natural result 0f'seeing ing and/th_anking:God for:till of His tbem to your neighbors. Let us he

...will do it" (John 14:13, 14). _The.an: "these needs is prayer that issues blessings, for His love, mercy, and our neighbor's keeper, by praying forgoodness Wllen one is d scouraged or him Let us strengthen one anotherswers to our petitions are promised forth from the depths of the soul, . ' ,,

_s i_ we ask-th'em in"His name. " either silently or audibly. Ia the night depressed., it is well to.f011oW the "ad- .bY praying "one for. ann!her. .

Thus-far we have discussedbriefly -watches, the s0ul cries out for the vice'of'the Songwriter, who wrote:. 3. The prayer o_importunity!'_._ Jesus'. teachings about having the lost, that they might be saved. Dur-" • : " ' .... •

"_ - When. _tpon li_e's billows you are " Another' kind of,prayer that is given" -

secret chamber of prayer, praying in ing the. working day, when :lie finds tempest tosse_, " " . us in the Bible is the prayer of sin-.the Spirit to the Father in the name himself surrounded Wlth fellow work- " When you are discouraged, think-, portu_ity. Jesus gives us the cla_slcof. Jesus. In these first lessons, Jesus ors Who a/'e lost .and unprepared to ing nil is lost, .... _ "exa_nple of this.kind of prayer inthe

"" has tEught-Us the basic truths that meet God, the sniff of'theintercessbr "COunt _3mlrmany'blessings, name man who had an unexpected guestwill Iead to a successful prayer life. cries out in silence, "Lord, Save them " ' them one by one," • ere they perish. '_ •Yes, as God's chil- come to his home at i_iidnight and he ..

III. KINDS elW PRAYER " dren, His witnesses and. co-workers, Ai_d it _eil[ surprise, you what the had no bread in. the house to set be-In the next major division of this- we are called upon topray continual- . :" ". Lordqzath done. : fore l_}m. But this nian knew n rich.

t , .paperwe want to .discuss theteach-' :ly_ without ceasing. " " " Praise arid thantksgiving unto Godare .friend who had-plenty of bread,'_o:lie

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i!!'! came to his home and knocked on his periences of the Christian life _ire " ".one for another,:' or"the prayer of reccivea from gleaning and gatlaerlng

tip or• at mfdnight, and the.n whited for those which require the greatest, price mportunity mad intercession,"is faith, in the harvest fields of the Lord. GodI

!it "his:friend to come _o the ddor. He in perseverance, determination, self- When we.prayi we must.believe.that is seeking laborers. Every person whowaited for a while:, hut there-was no discipline, and intercession. And be- God is. and that He is a Rewarder i)f qs'saved and sanctified is"called to be

il answer. He knocked again, and wait- cause their prlce is greater, they will _he/u thai diligently seek I-fire. All" n soul wimmr'and intercessor. A.s we• ed, butstill no answer. He knew that he appreciated more. The price that the promtsSs" of God's Word are ours nre_conmmnded to pray _hat God willhis friend was home, so he continued must he paid in intercessory prayer " if we but:st;and upon them in faith, send laborers, we receive the call to

I to knock until a voice responded _rom is great. It is.hard work to intercede : "AI! things possible to enter God s.harvest fmlds. Everyone. Jesus said_ arei the window above, "Troubleme not: oh behalf ofthe _alvation .of pthers, him that believeth." Therefore, when is not called'to ser_,e'in a-prominent

the door is now shut, and my children At times it requires boars of agoniz_ we pr_y, let us pray in faith, place in" the wmnitlg of souls to the

are with.me in bed;.I cannot rise and lag'prayer; there are periods of fast- in r John 514 15 we"read And Lord,. but all are called.to win souls.

i_ : hive thee" (Luke 11:-7}• "Butthe.man ihg, when the-concern and agony of - " " /Y " "" ' " - " _":" i 'God is loo!_:ing" for'people like Ruth" :

• - .... " .-- • ' this s the conduence teat we nave n - " "• ' would notbedenied hm request, so lost souls becomes so great that food •. he continued to'knock loudly on the is 'fllavorless and is undesired. God" him, that, if we _isk apy thing accord- .Sh_ .did' not ask foi" a:place c_f promi-

'door, until his knuckles' ,were sore requires of us this kind of prayer for ingto his wilL'he'heareth us: and .if . nonce among the reapers in' _he grainwe know teathe hear us, whatsoever : fields that belonged to Boaz. She said,"., and bruised: and finally his f_'iend our own. spiritual'benefit as Well as

came to thedoor because of Iris inn- fro' the salvation_of.others. InteJ?ces- we ask, we know that :We have the Just 'qet me glean and gathei, after.

,. portunity and gave" heft /as'many. spry prayer requires: diligence, dez petitions that we _lesircd. of :him?' otlmrthereaperSwords:among,,LetmethehaveSbe'4ves'"aplaceInloaves as he:needed, termina.ti0n, perseverance. and faith As' soul winnersand'intercessors of service in'tim, harvest fields, I am

This parable' reminds"me of us who that willnot let. go of the promises of - we know that it is God's will that all not very big, I don't.amount to much,are ministers, laymen soul winners,,- God. It is"a time when God tests our ". men gh_iald be-saved and sanctified. I haven't much in.t'lae._,vay of talents; .

" sineerity: IIe tests our willingness to• In II Pet; 3:9 we read: "The Lord .:.." but le'_ me do what, I caniI am willing•" " and intercessors who have friends di_, if'need be: that others might .be - is .longsuffering tc us-ward, not Will- to.be used.of the Loi'd."

• . who come to us and they are spiritual- sayed. In intercessory •prayer our " ' ing that any. should perish, but that• ly lmngry. We know that we in and eyes are opened to our own weakness-- all should come to repentance:" And Let me s_iy in closing, e/,ery Naza-

of ourselves have'n(_t the bread that es'and helplessness..We realize that I-Thess. 4:3_"This is the will of God. _ene is cailed to'be a s0ul winner.Will satisfy their starving souls. But in.ourselves we are n-othing. " even your sanctification." Therefore, For almost fete: years the Church

'?we !are personally" a_quainted, with a Andrew Murray has written: a'In let us come with boldness unto.the of.th_ Nazarene has been:emphasizing

"" Friend who has the bread of life. We importunity-" there are. various ele- throne:of g_ace, with troublesome ur-. : the Mid-Centuf-y "Crusade foi' Souls.are confident that He.will give unto meats. Of "these the chief are per- , . 'gency in prayer with the determina-'"The clarion call .has _sbunded forth

. tlon that we are 'pin to han on'in' from our generals and district super-'.them the bread of.life, which ._vill severance, detei'mination, intensity_ "" " ' "- --'g "g _ g and ntendents to all" ministers and laysatisfy tlmir'spir[tual hunger, Seine- It begins with the refusal to at once. ._aitn, as ni_a ¢_oranam, aacop,

" times it is necessary for' us wh'eu we adcept a deni_il. It ,grows. to the de- M-oses_ until our prayers are answered": mepabers"of, the Church of. the Naza-come to the throne of grace on'behalf termination to persevere, to spare no :0n.behalf of ethers. Such praying will rene-t0:mak'e soul winning their majorvocation. Let each one of us respond"of the salvation of Others to knock time 'or trotible till an answer comes, not go unrewarded. Its rewards arelong and loudly Until we have thepe- "It rises to '_he .intensity in "wl_ieh the .. closer, communion and fcnowship with to that.can and.let Us wait in the.pros-tit;on that we desire 0f Him. Jesus •wholebeing is gl"qefffo God in sup- ; . God. new revelations of the hidden once of God until our souls are set

• : has given Us the promise: "Ask, and plieafion, and the boldr_ess comes- to things of Christ, power with God and ablaze by God's. all-censure;fig .loveit,shallbe given you; seek, and.ye lay hold of God's strength. At. one . . man, and the salvation, of pri_cious and we l?.av;e within a bui'ningpassionfor a lost world; and then go forthshall find; knock, and. it shall be: time.it'is quiet and restful; at another souls, to glean and gather in the fields thatopened unto you, .For every one that • passionate and bold. Now it takes tin:_e I - "' are white unto harvest.a,sketh receiveth; and he'thai seeketh . and is i_atlent; then againit dlaims at " IV. GoD Is S_rc_r_. Ii_TElleESSOnS., .

findetl);'-and to'him tl4ht knocketh it" once what it desires. In whateverdif- " " . The fields _ndeed are white unto :'Pray ye therefore the Lord.o1 theshall be opened" (Luke 11:9. 10). .forest shape, i_ always means and harvest, but the laborers are .f_w. tihrvcst, that.hewilt'send forth la-

Why is it that we need to tarry so " knoUts--God hears prayer: I must be Jesus" 'ha_ commanded us "Pray ye .bout'ors into his harvest (Matt. 9:38).long'to receive theanswer? I t is not heard, v'_ ' " therefore the Lord ofthe harvest, I heardthe Voice of.tl_eLord, Say-because God do_s not want to answer, The one essential condition- of all that he will sendforth lahourm:s into ing, Whom shall I send, and who will

and is unwilling to give. us the" pet;- • true_t)rayer, whether it.be the prayer I his harvest" (Matt. 9:38). The rich- .go "_0r. us? Then said I, Here arff[:rices that we desire of Him. '.The of praise, of. thanksgiving , praying - " est experiences.and greatest blessings send.me. And he said,'Go (Isa. 6'.8,greatest blessings"and the'-richest ex- _,,_ h_,_ti_o__,_r_,10,,,,._,_9. that one can •have in this life are those 9a).

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The Minister, a Voice o_•Authority Theyare too bewildered to know gl:eatly moved. "The minister must.... what they want," bu_ they want some- feel that he is the messenger of God

thing other than,.they have received. ,.• sentto dying men.

". . " -BY _4. L: Cargill" While the world falters, th'e minisfers . He should speMc with the: con-should step in and speak with authori- sci_usness that .all heaven is looking.. "

_"_lw: GLORYto the Lord your G_}d theless--and.a bewildered world, with " ty. . upon him. The eyes of Jesus; whose -beforehe cause darkness, and l_e_ an impotent church) God forgotten, _ -

fore' yodr f_et stumble upon the dark • and the nations _vithout divine leader- The. minister should not'speak un- suffering and death he is sent to pre- .mountains, and, while ye look fo_ ship. less he has something to say_ some- sent to the lost,.turn upon him from

" ' thing of importance. I-_e shourd the heavenl)/ altar-of),intercession. •light, he turn jt_ into' the shadow of Ma_ we not well ask, Has the rain- transcend the human and reach,into Angels.watch anxiously, hell rumbles

death_ and make it gross darkness, istry failed, in its leader_;hil_? God the realms Of the divine. This means from.'heneatt b and sifmers stand in, . But if ye will not hear it, my soul said, "But'_f they bud stood in my

: shall weep in secret placesfor your counsel, and had caused my people a fol'getting of self. To speak!merely the valley-of decision: ....pride; and mine eye. sh'all weep sore. to hear my words, then they..'should - :. to be eloquent_ to'gain appla_tse, or This eonscfousness should stir _ theand run down"'.with "tears, because have turned them from their evilway, , to secure a reputation'as, a great emotior/s ttJ a holy passion. When athe Lord's.flock is etirricd'away cap- and from the evil of their, k]oings'. .? .preacher _ deserves only'utter con- minister .loses the.visi0n, when the.

tempt. The minister must present awful themes of hell, immortality oftive" (Jet. 13:16-17). -- " (Jer, 23:22)" . . Christ,.not l_imself, to hig_audience, the soul, and eternal destiny, cease to

Ii is _n evident fact that th'e spirit H ax,e we looked to scholars and ' " " stir.his heart, then comes the artifi-" " mmmter must be more than "ateachers for inspiration, more than The " " " .......of an age' affeets't_e religidus life ofthat'" age. _:At........the close of what is' unto God? Have We been influenced" very. lovely .song Of one. 'that hath a heCiai'becomesthe.empty,.merel_,andant]ieoratorVague;ratherand

[,,_..[_! " pleasant voice.-and can pla_ well on tll_n a messenger of God.

k1_exvn as' the'. _'Victorian Age" with " by the spirit of the age moi'e than we • .'its roinanticism and religious emo- haveitifluenced the spirit of the age? ' an 'instrument." whose words" thetionalism, there came a growth of in- Have we striven more for.'in intellec--_ people hear but do not: -obey. : The. :: If "the ministry is td assume ,thetollectual rationalism, embracing a tual_appeal than for a spifitual'ap- meaning of'his_message mus't be t/n-" place of leadersh'ipto'day, there most"

' mistakable. Christ's blindest . and. be a.-divine anointing, a filling, m-spirit of skepticism, refusing t:o accept peal? : . . " .anything as truth which' could not- be . :- Again the spirit of the age .is chang- heaviest-eared :C_r i t i e s understood dwelling Pi-esence, a Christlikeness..when He spoke of.them. Paul Said, _'Follt)w me, as T followproved.byhard, cold facts. The day ing. This is evidenced'very definitely " " , " "" " " " Ch_'iSt." The n_inistry 'n_ust'possess a'of, joy ous religious emotionalism in literature. Since World War II the The preaeher*s' business is to : en- spiritual unction• successful in savingpassed and.was followed by one in demand has been for the .pleasant_ force the gospel truth. Sin must be • . ,which men's minds became cold hard- escape _type of fiction, something tO:" : aggressively opposed. Territory. long . men. . .

• . -. ' Charles G. Finney related the inci-• boiled, and'analytical: divert the mind itito pleasant chan- held by the devil midst be •invaded. dent of a branch of the Sco£dh church

The machine age, m0dern•means.of nels. Just now the trend is .changing . The minister must make his' hearerscom/nunieatien; world-wide news sys- again Pulps andcheap •Western story. feel that'he is preaching to them abeiit" which became 'so .disgusted witH thetems, hard-top highways, and speed sales are slow_ pulp magazir/es are" themselves and not about others. The lack of unetion and power in the rain-

. in travel reflected upon men's souls, suspending, and the demand is turn- _inner must. be made to feel his guilt isters furnishiad them by'their-theo-haaking, them cynical, hard'0f eoun- ing tosomething weightier. -I" and .'loathe himself in his.own sight logical seminary that•they passed h. - resolution that until the.seminary re-.tenance and.heart. Church attendance,. For .many "years the molding of " for" his iniquities and. abominations. .' formed in'this respect they wouldn0t

.fell off,.cold reason.was exalted: and thought has'largely "been under the [" (Ezek.•36:31). .• . . . - •. . _. employ the ministers educated there.

• religious, eh/ntionalism was smoth- Jeadersh_p of-secular waters. The. The. "world .will .not long follow a If the _ainistry is t0 step into tl_e ' "

ered. -. : " ministry has been on the defensive, t ;. wa_'ering leader, If the minister i's-to place f aggressive, leader.s.h_ p today,But men wore m'eate(l emotional but we have again a_'rived at a point step into the place Of lehdei'ship'today_ there must be well-trained minds.and

beings and must hlive an outlet for in worl_t ehange.favorable for the he must possess an unwavering.faith scholarship attainments., hut •theretheir emotions; So emotional fiction, ministry to seize "the initiative, bet at_d purpose. Paul always spoke of must be also true holiness of hea]_teven blood-cur_ling fiction, movies, come. aggressive, force the blade _rom " eternal _hings as one Who knew. E_'en 'and' life. One cannot successfully, im-

and sports flourished. " the hand Of the opponent, and" stand • when speaking togdvernors and kings .press others with the. beauty of" bali-triumphant as the defenders of truth . • " ' " he reasoned of'righteousness, tempcrz ness unless the fruits of the Spirit

Then came three wbrldwars in one ---God,inspired truth. ° " . . ante, and judgment to come. with a are evident in'his own life. It is onlygeneration--the third one"stin large- . The world is tired" of _ spec'ulatlon - " ". conscious certainty..His power" and when the.'heart is ptire, that divinely a cold. war, bet a WOrld war nevca-- and fictional emotion.." Perhaps it "is .conviction wt_re-irresistible. Even the .

•M,_t_. _. c,,o too much to say. thdy want. truth• governor trembled, and the king was .. (Coatin_ied on-page 42) : " "• . . . . .

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.... ' : " " _ " "th'eir pulpits to display their educa- futile--so it is with sin., Iris not cureaBackwoods Preachei of the Southwest . tieR.Heexpressesthis'in pla ebybeingwellbo n.welleducated,or

!|- " By ialieU A . '. : .... hy saying, "Why will a preacher, go by good resolutions.• . : :. Mal Wilson into the pulpit on Sianday mox:nmg. 8. Moths must be killedmso _must.

" " - • ' " • " " - " " and-read an essay on Socrates, Ci'cero, sin. and in this world; fort - _ LORD, give mca backbone as big all off m front, a pmtoI, and. a._greasy or the queen of' England, "When he 7, There will be no moths in hear-'[ " _'_ as a sawlog _afid:ribs like' the" deck bf cards. Equipped thus, he went. knows, it is as.dry as a Texas wind en. ("Where moth.and rust doth not .

l " . and as chpty as a last year's bird's corrupt':)--:neither w!ll there be any• sleepers under the_hurch" floori put. tt_ a frontier camp lneeting sponsored. " •

: '" irdn shoes on me 'and galvanized by Presbyt_erian. Methodist, and Bap_ _' "r •nest? .'.. It won't even. keep his con- sin. " • - " • - "

. breeches • and hang a ..wagonload of tist churches. Here he was converted - gregation awake." " Robinson's simplicity Was undoubt- "

determination up in the gable-end of and immediately began to learn to Robinson had no _se for philes6ph:: edly a factor in hls'effectiveness. Itmy sou!, and'help.me to" Sign the con- read and, within" a fe_ Weeks," to , ical and theological contr6versies and, ..is qasy to'see how this would be trt_c

i., tract to fight the devil as-•long'as 'I preach. For twenty years he worked with the exception of liquor reform, 'in the first twenty years of his min--' have'a fist. an.d bite t_im as 10ng as as a laypreacher." circiait rider, arid ignored -economic and sbeial pl:o- istry, when his congregations _'ere .I have a tooth, and then gu.in him. itinerant evangelist "in Texas, . Then grams: For the most part the .ideas comppsed of fellow Texans whose edu-.!till I die." he b_gan :to preach in other states, he preached were those beliefs that "eational bacl_ground was "similar to

This prayer, byReuben A: {Bud) . Before he retired at tlle close of sixty conccrngd'personal religion common his own. In the last forty years heRobinson. is typical of the speaking years of preaching, he had t.raveled = . tb the Orthddoxhmong all the Prot- extended his ministrythroughout allstyle of a man Whose'life and pullSit two million miles, preached more .estant churches:- He once said; "The the states of the Union; but-here• too,career might well entitle him,to'15e than thirty-eight thousand limes, arid religion of Jesus Christ is jt_st.good . his .i_ongregations were people whocalled the last.of the Southern back- made more than a hundred thousand common sense that's'all." " had:been influenced by the" frontierwoods preachers. Robinson was born converts. - . . . The simplicity of Rob nson s sen- days of earlier gericrations. As WalterJn 1880 in a windowless, floorle_s one- " Yt_t to the very- last Robinson's • " tenee, structure c0Yrdsponds to'- the Blair.once p.ointed out. the frontier -

room. Jog cabin in'the mountains isf sermons, were strongly marked ,by ' simplicity of.,his 'ideas, His sentences emphasis' on" common sense had a " "-Tennessee• His parents wer e of certain' features that characterized the " "are never pemodie'.and usually.consist great influence in making "gump-

" Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stoek_ hut public speaking 6fthe Southern back-, of short statement_ corihected by rich" almost a national religion overbefore Reuben was born his father woods region where he Was born'and "and" or some other co-ordinate.con- th_ entire country._hod lost his-once considerable wealth reared. The most outstandingof'thcse . junction. The prayer quoted earlier - " "

"_ - through.whisky-drinking and fiaanu- features" .were: (1) simpl!cit'.¢ in ' " is'typical of'this style. . Ira^_ERY XN R0nZNSON'S SERMONS""-' facture. The home was a place of ?;hougl_t, sentence structure, and ser-. ". The organizational plan of Robin- Extravagant use of wvld Imagery is

men organization; (2) liberal use of: "sordid destitution where the children imagery, homely but vivid and often :, son_s.sermons was.rfirely,more com- the mbst'unusual characteristic of allhad insufficient food andclothes, With ' - plicated th an a "string-of-beads?.. Robinson's sermons." Where anotherno education• either secular or relig- exaggerated to the point of grotesque- " " •

: ness; (3) frequerit Usi_ oF narratives, " outline. His sermons in hi'searly min- man 'in describing• his conversion- istry seeln to ha_;e been even less might remai'k that his sins oppressedi0iis't. " . " " often personal experiences dramati-, formally organized, An.illustration of him,. Robinson• says::.

-At twenty Robinson was still illiter, eally told; ' (4) humor;_ (5) an extem- the'm0s_ deltiC'ire progression" of ideas : As I was lying there in the-straw, my.ate. "and almost inarticulate because poraneous and .communicative fftyle found in any of his sbrmons is the Sire- :whole life of sin came up before me.' The.of his severe stutthring. He was a of delivery, . - lies tbat I had told seemed to have st rigors

ple series outline of his sermon based . in them;like bald-headed.hornets, and-theycowboy in Texas, owning, as he used S_r_ZCZTV or THO_3On_ on'an, extension of the Biblical 'anal_. -were stinging a guilty conscience..'., . Theto tell later, ' only, a" sletich hat a.pair " " STRUCTURE, _O PL^H "" oaths that I hod.uttered seemed to "haveof run-down boots, a pair of:old greasy ogy 0fmoths and sin.• . " ' teeth in them and were biting pieces outoveralls, an old blue hickory shirt .Robinson became a'diligent student 1, The motla is little--so is sin. of my guilty conscmnce. All the water-torn at the elbows with the buttons , soon" a f t er his conversion, arid 2 The mothworks from the inside" melons [ Had stolen seemed to be piled

th'roughout his entire c_ireer read•and out--so does .sin. . up arouedme and. their sti'iped backs were"_ studied diligently, After he .had . grinning in" my. face and they said; "You

,s0,,,_. _ _,_o_._.o._o,,t _o_.,o,,_m_ _,__,,,_- " 3. The moth works its greatest got me." and I said. "Yes. but I am done. '_InqIncludethe|allowln9.ella_man,J. B,,"l]qd_,_b;n_0r_;A preached fpr. ten years, he had one havoc on'garments not in use--so does And every..grmss-sack of peaches I hadBrolher Beloved"" (K0asa_; _ffy: l_,Irntl Hi'I Pre_, 1945};

_lter: Radii.,'o.0 _bln_0,*:̂ _,_lr_c_e_1ar,_ce"¢K_n_._s.year of College training; Yet his ser- stolen seemed to be lying right across myCIt : _e_¢on IIHI Pre_. 19,12_; _ bl._on O,,a "St,n_hh*e incas always ebntail]ed only simple sin. .

] an_ SmUe_" (Chlc_o; The Clui_t a_l Witne_ Co. 1902_;

,ob_n_o,._,,a="_ H,', ,st0_- _,,,_ c_: _-'_,_,_ ideas, well withiii tile comprehension " 4. The moth is no rcspectcr ofper-' stomach end holding me. down to the earth.

i:. " oubmhl_ . ..... X_S;: _,hlnso, Sa._, "n.ar+_e,ao_r, sons--neither is sin. There" is a startling resemblanceIgan+,++Chv:tl,+z,+rene.P,+bllstdr_9".llou,e,1_13). Rnhln'mnOf the least'educated of his audiences.dlea l0 Pasaden_l In 1942. n_oths ale 0nl_erslty o[ Chfc,ga o Pte_._ 1,/.t21. p. _5.°nort_esv'tlazare_eCollr_je,NJln_a. Idaho l_e had scorn for preachei's Who used., " " " 5.. Most remedies for • • _/alterMa;r."HorseSenseInAmerican tit,mar: IChtcago1

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i between "the freedom Of imagery by This language of the backwoods " and got where I could get him by the bridle ing. His desei'iption-of John the Bap.: " • :Robinson and a similar freedom by contrasted with the subblety of Yon- bits and jerked him and then :kicked him- tist Is recognizable to one 'familiar• a:g long as I could raise my feet, and ranthat of the Southern backwoodsmen kee speecli, and is certainly .the op, back and grabbed the plow-handle and'tried with the"Gospel account, but. als(_ .of a generation earlier; typically seen posite of what one critic has called" to make him go, hut be woulc[r_'i do. it: [ strangely resembles the frontier .mr-in the autobiography, speeches, and the-_'deadness of much contemporary .finally gr£bbed hirr/ I?y tl)e bridle bits and cult rider. " "

almanacs of Davy Crockett, who Was English.. : use of. l!fe-forsaken words twisted his nose with one hai3d,and reached . : another I31h_echaracter _ t o•came on [

born and reared in the same mountain in'that jargon of scmnce and-abstrac- up and got hold of his ear.and .palled it" down,, and began to bite the end of his •the woods with a camel skin across hisregion as Robinsori. iCrocke,tt,for ex- tion so characteristic of the 'present "ear. Hethrew me. ta.the ground and nearly :_houlders and an Old Testament scrollample, describes hie feelings for. his age. ''l .knocked the breath out of me, and ran off under his arm, and his/breeches rolled up

with the p d_vand broke the mad es off. to bis knees, anal long.sbaggy hair dowzl• . • . ,

: sweetheart as "love:so hot it nigh to. Another" has suggested that the ' "I went up the hill pulling mule hairs otit to l is s} oulders,.and.a par of f cry eyes.-" .bui_st my bilers. '_and when he became --speech _of .these backwoodsmen, may from between my teeth, and I said,"Well, leo_ing tb_a.dgh the peep b" - . "

ii angry was as "hot as a tar-kiln," and _ owe its freedom and inventivenessto ". he didn't plow, but I got satisfaction out Perhaps the" most fmhiliar of all

i of him:" Tliaf: was on: Saturday an_ I .had• was surprised that smoke was "not their" ancestors having stepped so" to pread_ the next da_,.'ahd as I walked up " Bible figures is that of the shepherd• potlring ou't of him.a. - suddenly into the wilderness,as..to the hill the devil"said, "What fire you going and sheep, 'But where in the.:Bible

• " In lm_guage equally exaggerated, preserve the_e qualRies of sixteenth :to.tell the.Lord can do for a fellow?" I figure thb thoqght ischiefly theeareRobinson ridicules the pompously era- a n d seventeenth centuries,, unir_- had to hunt's place to pray ahd promised of the shepherd for the sheep, Robinr

torica[ type of preacher by saying that ffuencedby the later stability of the the Lord if He would .pardon again 'and. son extends.t_e'figure by adding therestore to .me the Joy_ of salvatioa,, and idea of'the.0lJl!_ation" of the sheep tosuch a man.would "put his _ollar.and English langizage. _ . - give me victary In my soul again I .would

• tie ona flymo meteor, and prance up • Whatever/merit this explanation nevm: more grieve Him. [would think I produce for the "shepherd. • "If theand down the Milky 'W'ay with a gold- may have, Robinson. like Davy Crock- had the thing settled forever, but onl:(, to Lord is your Shepherd, He. can shearcane in his hand, and shave the man.. 6tt,:was certainly uninhibited and.un- run a short time and meet with another .you any time:" 21gain, instead•of con-- defeat• " • "in the moon and. turn somersaults [n conventional in.the Use of imagery. . . • ; trasting sheeff wlth-goats as in the

the big dipper." NARRATION_[NROBINSON'S SERMONS :HuMoR. IN RoBINsoN's SERMONS Bible, he sub.stitutes an animal more. • . familiar to Americans. "When you

.Again in describing the Christian's " The :continua], use of narratives .to Robinson's sermons _ere so. per- " shear a sheep, you'll'get no noise "arid"entrance into'heaven, Robinson Said: prove points or Blake them ifnpressive reded with humor that it has been a sack of wool, When you" -shear .a

" We'll go io and:run •up th6 streets, prob- was a common trait of speakers" from impossible to cite "ekamples of oth_r hog_ you get noise and' no. Wool."ably a mile wide and fifteen hundred miles the backwoods: We are all familiar features of his speech without illus-- • . -• long, and jump into the river_andawlm with Abraham Lincoln's use of anec- trat!ng his humor.also. Pattee'poifted RoeIN'SON'S DELIVERY

across and •climb the fred of life, the fruit .....of which is as big as your double'fists, and dates.• Robinson's, sermons were _so out yeai's "ago that American litera- None of" the-. traits of Robinson'sripens every month iD the yegr. It s with- :. filled with narratives that sometimes ture from' the first has been rich in speech Can be hdequately appreciatedout'peeling on it .or seed in it, and so good they almost seem to be'solely d collec- l _ humor and" that, especially, on the without _Under_tanding something .of,it" melts in'your m?uth, " tion of narratives-. These ndrratives . frontier, the incongruities.of'cultures the way i.n which he spoke.. Like

Thfs latter quotation is an instance " are gi_,en in a.personal, vivid way. His " " .'and. ....peoples in the new, Worldall.. tend-, practically all other" frontier speakers_of Robinson's fondness Jar gustatory . Stories are filled. With such expres- ed to make the.Amertcans a laughing he spoke extemporaneouslY, His"in-imagery/ which investigators a r e stuns as "God said to me," "The devil people, a Robinson's humor was. large- tonation patternu,, eye. contact, and.agreed is one of the types least often said to me," and sometimes, as'in the " [y produced by. incongruity. There posture were. all c.haracteristic.of theused. It is true that Christian preach: " following sample, ."The mule said to was the incongruity' between the sa- "direct, natural, communicative type ofers:have from earliest timesdescribed .me.". To prove his point that •even a credpess and sublimity of his ideas -delivery• Men who heard himp.reachthe satisfaction of religion both :in this Christian preacher may need a furth- and the homeliness of his language., the same sermons and tell the sameBsbl|cal language a " .world and the hereafter in terms of, er w0rkof grace to enable him to live• Naturally, he used ' " " . ' stories' repeatedly throughout. ¢hoSesatisfaction ofhunger needs; "but'who: Victoriously; he tells an incident from great deal. The contrast' between this forty years'agreed that each.time Rob-beford ever.talked, as Robinson often his own 'experience: - " ... Biblical language was a,further in- inson Seemed tO be as dnthuslastieally

.... - c0ngruiiy producing a .humorous enjoying the speaking, as if it weredid, of finding in heaven'a "pancake .i was plowing in the field'and plowed - -tree"?. Nor has any etherpreacher -up till near noon. ,The mule wanted toga . effect. • ,the "first time he had _ever had the

to _inner hnd I wmited to plow. He said Even When he used Biblical image- 'opportunity to give his message. Heever dedicated a book of sermons, as he wouldn't plow anyIonger_ and I said-Robinson did his first, A Pitcher of he weird:' I whipped him'xvith the lines. " : i'yl-the"picture was often strongly- constantly smiled:' and chuckled 'asCrean b to .a _ersey cow[ ' ,t_, p_,,_l_ s.,_t_ ,,wo_, '_,_ _10m,,, ts_0,: tinted with American. frontier cola/'-" he spoke. This fact, and _he fact that

.o._to.,- _;_,, co.. _..s_, _ _ . " , : - " he never 10st his,So.uthern_drawl and.'[)av[d Cf_ckett _'LIfe a_ Sa_qtf_:roc_eil: An autol_logrsph_" _Coas_znce Routke," "American tremor" [Nea_ York: Sat., _fred Lewis Pence, "A History of American Literature always, lisped, increased the .humor-

(_w York: "Fhc Pc_kIn_ Bao_, Ciz 1903). pp, _0, 56. ca_r|, a_ace.and CO. 1_31). o _4. SinCe 18_0 _ {New Yolk: "(he C_atuty Co, 192n p. 25.

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- prayers. He"felt certai/x no one would speaking characteristics I have dis-ous effect of much that he said. Prob- Prbbabiy. evml this audience was _:ome, for. •Robinson had said r_othing cussed here, must certainly be givenably the reputation he'acquirecl as a hot basically different in religious and about, hell. the terrors of the judg- credit • for mu_h of his. succcssft_l ap-humorist predisposed his audience to cultural background from Robinson's m'ent, or: the dangers of grie:_ing the peal. His sincerity, benevolence, andsee humor in "all that he said. . . Usual aildiences. They were all corn- Spirit away." But whdn Robinson a genuine personal interest in all

In one series of p)cetings he was posed chiefly nf native American. - said; "Come on:" they came hurried- people that h.e met everywhere, ira-preaching turn about with a dignified. Protestant. middle or. lower.class poe- " : ly, "all broken .up," and fifty men and pressed _all who knew. hin_. .As" oneclderly_ well-educated minister from pie not more than one or two genera- women made ,5 definite profession.of of his biographers says: °.'He was justtheNorth, who was shocked at the -.ti°n_s removed from frontier farms and faith that night. . as happ_z •over the f_iendship of a

repeated outbursts of laughter that ranches themselves. On thi_ occasma therewere oh- colored man or'a littlechild as over

greeted Robinson's statements. He re- "EF_FECTIVENESSOF ROalNSO.I_'S viously strong emOtions aroused, but that o£ a state governor, or a bankbuked the cdixgregation so.sternly that ' not. the emotions, usually considered "president, and'he was just as likely to. SPEAKING TIIAITS IN PEHSUASION

speak of his }oy over meeting with anthey were ahnost afraid to-smile. . - effective By evangelistic: preachers: illiterate oldnelghborasan, acquaint-Then Robinson arose and bcgan one . l_.obinsorl_s colleagues were. alw,_ys. Sirice Jonathan Edwards. prca'ched

. of his most !56pular sermons _qth 'the at a loss to account for. his success in his ClaSsic sermon. "Sinners in : th.e ancc "with a college president."•! woi'ds, "Lazarus was sick._" His •lisp "pcr_suasion. :It-was easy to see how Hands of an Angry God," appeals to Th s personal trait was certainly'not

ready it, "Latharuthwath thick. '_ The the ti'aits I'hav6 listed would attract fear have beeh thecommonly accept- characteristicof all frontier px;each-.audience was swept with a convulsion large crowds to heai" him', .and easy ed practice by.'American preachers . ors. RvJ_in_on even described certainof laughter In which even the learne,'J to see how they .would hold tlie at- for thistype of persuasion. Throwing of his friefids and Colleagues of his

. tention of the audiences when he was . .an audience into con/'ulsiox/s of•laugh - earlier ministry as" men 'in whosedoctor joined.• . sPeaking... Not _so easy was _ it to see " -• : ter is riot customarily recommended make-up there was "no sugar,•honey, • -

AUDIENCE ADAPTATION. . how in an audience almost hilariously when the speaker's purpose is to pro- or candy. These men are all _aek- -Robinson's extemporaneous method enterlained for an hour by a drawling, " duce a feeling of condemnatioff for bone.•" Robinson prized •backbone in

of preaching made it, easy for him to lisping speaker giving his picturesque•adapt• his sermons t6 "the :.immediate. stories of personal religious expert- i' _infulnesSa.ction.that will lead to immediate "sweetaman'backbone."hutpreferred it s_duld be aaudlence: He was qui}:k at "repartee. once and alinost a grotesque repx:e- : - . - • .and tactful as well, as in handlihg. Sentation of his r_ligious ideas, shores There are three "suggestions that CONCLtrSIOr¢hecklers. For the most part, however, of peop.le would final ti_emselves over- .- may help to'explain the effectiveness Reuben A. Robinson-in-a •strikinghe found little modification neccssar'y, whelmed:by a sense of their sinful- of'Robinsdh: First, it. may well be way egenIplified in a ministerial

m preaching his sermons to different ness "and ,eagerly responding to tl_b: that his audiences were made highly• career many rhetorical features char-

audiences. It is said that•Billy Sun- evapgehsts call to repentance ann a suggestible, by: their'participation ifl• aeteristie of SoUthern. baekwpods

day,.•whe n speaking to•the ministerial search: for persor_al•holiness, the common _motional reactions of !orGacl_ers of.the nineteenth.century." " " laughing and Weeping..• " ' " . " Part of his popuIarity may be explain:association' of a New England City, " On e Of his younger._olleagues, him_ - .

(![_l "'." deliveredadignified!addresst0tt_em self'a Successful evangelist,_ells of Secondlthee_mph'asiswhlchmodern ahle b:: his having sp0ken ehiefly to

., in" the•mild, dignified n_anner _hey his oivn reactions and audience _'eac- psychology of persuasion places" on . people who .themselves were not farwere accustomed to using'themselves. 'tions on the •first occasion o_.'hemqng attention, might explain much of his remo%,ed frmn the American frontim'

When.Robinson spoke to'the theologiC- Robinson preach: At fir'st he had'a success. I havementioned how•highly generation. Since he'lived and spokeca] faculty .and_ students of a large letdown feeling, and felt sure the successful Robinson was in. holding for nearly a half century after the

f Southern university, he spoke in the '. c_'owd would be disappointed. Soon the attention'of his audiences. His use virtual disappearance of the frontier,same "way and used the same material he began to feel his "heart strangely . . of'figurative ]ariguage, personal•nor- his care.or.marks the close 'of a period

• " " rativcs, and humor _ll contributed to in regional American oratory., ': . he used in addressing a'eamp-meeting warmed." Then for foi'ty minutes he 2: " persuasive effectiveness hy not a_low- " "

• Crowd. Some • of his friends "who Was caught in a wave of emotion, " .. . . _ ".thought the University audience aloflg With the rest of the crow_t, that -. .... mg the attention of. the .audience to

.... would look .on Robinson's religious caused him to forget his surroundings turn to objecti0ns: to the ac_iqns, lie " _UY YOUR BOOK_

_... ideas as incl:edibl3_ el'd-fashioned and and live with Robinson•the experienc- ': - wished tliem to take. Argumentative "• " his narrative of personal experiences es he was so.vividly describing. Sud- " " •logic or a blatant appe_l_0 fear might al'ld aH

too naive for" consideration, found to _denly WRh his eyes red from 'crying, conceivably have put the audience in • Church and S,S. Supplies"their surprisethat the [_roup was so- his sides aching-from laughing, • he " : a hostile:mood " From Your OWn

" interested that they hung about ques.- - realized that Robinson's sermon was Third; Robinson's personal eharac- Publishing House .ti0ning Robinson until hehad to. leave over a'nd an appeal Would bemade • terl as partly, revealed thrmigh theover an.hour later, for people to come forward for . "

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T_ous._NDs Of 2_Ipine_peasants farm what Could -be done in the hearts of I.wAs vzszTzz_a u p'r_spective member " cation, and they may be just as .right _ "the •niountainsides;. they" grow other sinftll men. And with the Bible for the Ch¢rcli of the Nazarene. In:- as I am. I'm leading this individual to

olives_ priqcipally. This has been pus- "and prayer, and With the..preaehing • e_xplaining the MamLal "_vith its dec, believe that" he is-seeing sanctificationslble 'through exiehsi_,e terracing., of full sal_,ation, they went to the task , - trine anc[ ethics, I caught .fi_ysclf say- through the eyes of Nazarenes. HeWith the rocks, which'a_'ein abund-" hewing 0ut.kingdoms for .our Lord.. ing, '_We belid,)e this-_relative to.the may go'to his next-door neighbor af-

ance, they build walls; the dirt is then A student in one of our colleges subject athand." It-sotinded to me as ter I'm gone and say'that.he d0es notmoved against the wails until there was disturbed about whether Or not " if Ias a Nazarene had .a peculiar'.be- believe in sanctification the way the

is.a near-level space Of a few feet.-":h.e Would find a church upon gradua- - liefDapart from the Bible. Perhaps Nazarenes.d0. B_t if Ihave told himOften the .walls must b'e greater in "tion. This Was not the attitude of our " -it is just 'a habit we have developed, that the Bible teaches all of oui" dec-.

• height than• is the width of the founders. They did riot fin_ churches; _ in expressing what we personally be- " trine on sanctification, then Ihave:_;"" '!leveled'_ space. "Sometimes one can they founded them. They Were not lieve and what the church believes hy -left no room for:him to say it is'just:" " " see only the'rock Walls as'he looks up given pastoral positions; man_, of saying , "we bene':,e R"this _vay. !._This N_zarene belief. - ....

t from'the_valley. - " them had them_good ones, pi'ofes-i [ opens us upfor a misun'derstanding The church is not•above the Bible

_ Most of us Would have thought sion'ally successful ones--but they. '.. among those of other faiths. A change in authority. We must come to "the. _l: " farming impossib!_,_on these moun- forsook them, • as did' Phineas Bresee, 1 in our expression and language would realization that- we .do not believe astainsides:' We •would have said: "They• and went out to make pa.stora] posi z : " • be for • the better in Witnessing for our we do just because our Church be-are ruggedly beautiful. They remind tions; ' church. . : . lieves that way," but because.'that isof God. They:might'_ontain valuable The Church of the Nazarene[ is .not •In oui. doctrine there is nothing ihat the Bible way. ' The church • does notminerals._vRhin. But for usein agri- "merely an institution; it is noLmerely is unscriptural. Every step .of the "formulate .our beliefs---the Bible hasculture, .they' are .valueless." No o•engaged in'_conserving gains.' Ours is statement of doctrine is as the Bible already done•that• The duty of the.

, • . isdoubt f01k in those parts thought the[: a movement; we are forever extend, teaches-R. We believe a man a church is to emphasize .the Bible:same for centuz:ies.- There came the fag our borders, preferring rather to sinner" until he is saved--the Bible The World is not 'so much'.c0ncern_ed.

" about what you and ._[arid Our churchday, however, when some peasant, seek new transfigurations .than to teaches that.. We.believethat a man:with more imagination •than most and build[tabernacles with• the thought of must be sanctified entirely=the Bi- believe; .but .what does the Biblewith sufficient brawzi, wen_ to work -"permanentizing" "earlier ones. = This " ble teaches' that. Therefore when I teach'? This is an age of book reviewson' his" mountainside. With pick and has ever:been so, and it must• ever be. present the doctrine of my church to. :and Unsettled convictions in the i_hl-

" shovel, and .with stonemason's _ ham- so;. Arid because it is our essential someone it is my privilege to state pi L The fur-reaching effect is comingmers, he literal]5] hewed ont _/king : spirit, v)e must .ever hew Out new "The Bible teaches thus and so and' to Us. People are skeptical. They have

• dom. Others, with this lead, hewed kingdon_.. Many of the five thousand . . that Is "my church's .4tend,:' Suppose heard from pulpit "after .pulpit ' whatout kingdoms on their mountainsides,' " students now in Our ".colleges .and ..... • I am counseling With'a new convert the ministe_ believes and some haveuntil now there are thousands of Such seminary are called to this holiness . relative to the experience .of holiness been m exact contrast to each other.

• • .... o ' uth" rn F_:ance as well ministry Not .a great proportioti of " of heart, This particular individual They have.heard the _,arjous churchesmese can nope zo nave enurcnesas innorihern Italy aadin Switzer-'. . . - . - may not be acquainted with our dec L give out _taterhents of belief. When

land. " :" "" awaiting: them. We must. be ready [. trine in its" full beautY. He has ques - Jesus ' asked tl_e disciples _,ho they- " and willing to .go out. anal ivmke " tious to .ask. 'arid my answer's' are that were ,convinced He was, Peter de-

The fnunders"of the Church"of the -churches. In this way lies romance "we l_eiieve this Way about sanctifiea- dared, "I believe thou art the Son ofNazarene were like these Alpine . l_or.pioneering spirits., rich. [We heiie_Je man has.a carnal no- God." No, that is far from his declare-peasants... They saw ab6ut them an We shall-have to go.int0 new _reas, " -.ture .in his heart; We believe in the: tion, He really says, "Thou art the"aggregate of sin which was.m0untain- where •our work is not known.-We crucifixion of the "old nature in' a Christ, the Son .of the living God.?'

ous in its proportions, and they knew shall 'have to go ipt0 difficult •areas, dying-out-process." When I. state it And when we start telling People wethat that Sin issued from hearts which where -the seed of the gospel" will. at thus, I leave the door of. human un- believe this and believe• that aboutwere as stony as is a- mountainside; first fa!I upon stony g_:ound.._We'shall '=" demtanding open to the reasoning that Christ, it becomes confusing. The Bi- •but because of what had been done have to g0 into metropolitan areas, there are other .beliefsabout" sanetifi- " ble teaches about Him and does notin their own hearts, they.envisioned wheremen are busy and where they " -. " "

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Need what to pray for, God is looking hlr rivals do not blow in on every breeze.The Revival We people who can really pray, and be- They are .the results of certain Iaws

" cause He fails to find tt_em He is and eonditi6ns, as the prdductionof

By DwlghtBolce* " " - amazdd and wonders. Because.there electric lights. Someone prayed, forWere so few who stood in the gap, you when you x_ere lost in sin; some-

: " ' " filled up the hedge, He poured out one carried a burden for me. ]_f they

p_i'tTecqsrAL RSVZVaLS'are the spirit- "If'my people, which are. called' by his wrath in ihe Old Testament days. had hcen too busy to pray, the chanc-ual breath'of the sanctified. After ._-my name, shall humble themselves. Now it is" the same Because there es are we would never-be saved today.'the'soul has been saved from sin and' and pray, and seek my _aee, and turn •

the heart cleansed, from all uni'ight- from theil: wicked .ways; then will I _ .are so fe_" who.Will.take this. burden , The_ world has .tee. many, heartless,- • at heart, He pours His wrath and passmnless preachers. More than a: eousness, there comes a longing and bear _rom. _iedven and will forgiy e •judgment and destroys the -vcicked dozen times in the Ne_ Testament itdesire to help save others. These pent- their sin, and will heal their land", " - -

• " . wasup emotions of'the soul can be let (II Chr6_.. 7,14)' is the answer to and lawless and disobedient today, is 'written ofthe Master, "Hefree to flow .down the channels of re-"-these ever present quest ons today .... .. .Oh, the burden of souls that"will moved With compassion." He suffered

- .rivals. Amdrica and the world at We-all, naed a "greater passion for glue ,you fast to the_-altar of prayar _,itl_ the sinner. " "large need.a Holy Ghost, Pentecostal souls, We need a revival of inter- when people are seeking God! .After. John Wesley was noted to die be-revival. '_Revive us .again," .is the ceding aa]d prevailing prayer. Let the the evangelist has poured out his cause "he became out. of bri_ath pur-

• , constant cry Of God's children: skeptic and the modernist'sneer and " heart, every i_erve of his physical suing.souls." At- eigMy-ffight years

_!ell'"has enlarged-.itself beyond laugh; yet the Old Book. observMion, being keyed-up to the'blreaklng point, of age and with extreme feebleness' " and experience :all .agree that God to see some of tim. faithful e|mrch he preached his last sermon and. this-measure and .its doors are pressed " "

back to the breaking pbint to greet still lives and -answers prayer today. " members (?) leave withhat and coat was his .text: "Seek" ye the Lordthe mad rush- of human "souls Jevery "Moreover as for.me," God forbid that " " because they have to 3vql'k eight while he may be found, call: ye uponhour:. What. can 'stop this terrible I. should sin _gainst ..the Lord in. hours in the factory the next day, is him while he' is near." So it can beroa/" of the hell-bound._rain? What' ceasing to pray for ybu". (I Sam. enoughto dampen hisefithus asm ar/d said he died evangelizihg..No manean_stopthis increase in erim'e?What 12:23). If God-would place an intense spirit_ Oh, God givg us a burden that has ever amounted to anything in

" hl_rden upon 'the Prophet Samuel's will !_eep the evangelisL, on his knees preae.hing'l.he glorious gospel ofcan stop. this age of lukewarmness h6art, _even though Saul backslid in prayer, instead of sight-sceiflg ex- : Christ '.who has never felt the thrilland carnal ihdifference that.is:sweep- later, ia burden even though the first : eursions )till 5_.30. p.m:, t_en rush :bf the words of John Knox, "Give me. ing our land'today_? .But why go on?The heart grows'sick, the head dizzy king of Israel fell •upon a sharp, up-.. home, eat a'sandwieh, dust. some of Scotland or I die! .....

turned sword• and " dropped into " the rust off one of his "big gun ser- _.:.captain 0La Salvat:ioh'Army unitwith therecltal of present world con- eternity without hope, howabout.God ) rebus," race.to thle platform and in the _tebp of discouragement wroteditions, but all goes to prove that _'e- laying burdens upon our:hearts? .- t •preach, and blame the devilas to why to General Booth 'concerning• hi_need a sin_killing,.devil-driqing, hell-defeating-revival rigl_t nowl . " Oh, let us arouse ourselves from the . . • - all the people, f_ll "asleep. :Ycs: he work. He explained his battles and"

preached with perspiration _11 Kight, defeats, efforts he 'had put .forth to" , ...... dust of indifference and rise .andMy subject; The .rtewva_ we . , - • but no anointing and.inspiration'..;N6, .win men to God but to no avaiL/Back •.... .... ,, ...,.., ,, wrestle with Jehovah asking Him to "

.,t'_een', eouta... t_e:.a_reetea-., _o me. worm., • make" us "cletermmeu'" 'oacoDs'anu"" pre- we do not want a'long-faeed,, eat-out- came the answel" .by telegram fromme uenommatmn mepastor me , . , ,.,, - .. Of-the:churn religiqn. N0, athousand General Booth: The captain opened• ,........ ,, . .- vaiung lsraeis.._tnese days when we . _ • . .evangenst, or the mmwauai say _qm- . ,, ,, •., . .; , ...-., mile_ from _hat!. But we do. need a the .'telegram with a stirred heart,• " talk anu prea[ne, war, anct reau in thebe/'. Since .the starting point in any screaming ? headlines " of oui. news- real Pentecostal burden for souls in thinking, no doubt, that here was the

. directiola of spiritual, progress in a papers lmw'mafiy thousand men were . • our revivals" today. A .real revival answer to the perplexing problems of•denomination is the local church, I- killed let Us think in the positive "- ..is•not a Sunday,school picriie,-'dress his work. Hut to his amazement.andwould like to. draw your attention.to parade, side show, bu_ a battlefield " ashonishment it cent ine,_ o 1" •four outstanding th6ughts of this terms of the gospel how many souls " , ' . - - . " ' a _ n,y _wo" • between r_ght and wrong heaven and " . ' • ,, • , •

can.we save• There is a place in ' words_ Try. tears. Heed[hg th_s

serious subject. Let us consider.now the'(_hureh of Jesus Chiqst aye_ in the . .. . hell. " - . ' ad':ece, he bdgan to put it i_o prae-a greater passion for the lost,, taithful Chui'eh of the Nazarene, called .the A womar_ cried out ' after hours of tice. Tear's' over the prei_ai'_i0n of

_,_ preaching of' God's eternal truth, 'room of intercession; 'this place to be prayer at the altar, "I arn happy I " his messages, 'tears in his pastoraldeeper al.tar, wbx;k,' and a persistent ...... • , . .used by none, except God s own dear have a burden now, because all nty work; ti_ars in his sermons, tears in

effort until a genuine revival comes. people. The. Holy Spirit Will lead family has" slipped thr0t_gh my indif- his altar calls, and results soon came.. - you to this room.of hallowed retreat; " - ferent fingers into hell, because .I Let us practice tears in our _revivals.

i *Pastar, ChllllcSthe. Ohio - " •_, r,a_bao,_c_,t,al0hieVr,_h_,¢U,a01_ He teache_ybu, not how to pray, but professed but never"possessed." Re- ' todaY. "Is 1.here' no balm in Gilead;

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2s thel:e no physician there? why thi_n' back' al:ng tlie riverside to haul in revival •tide of fire and glory would that gives a satlsfaclol_y answer to

:m not the.health of the daughter of those golden sheaves of wheat. The sweep our-district! We must haul in these questions: "Who am I7"my ,people recovered? Ohthat mY best wheat always gre;,v back along wheat. Our Church's greatest need "Wimre am I?" and "Where am Ihead were Waters, and mine cycs a : the hot riverside. We/_hrcshed whe'at, today is sinners.. Men cannot be going?" Preach it until sinners arefountain of tears, that I might weep we sacked wheat, we sold wheat, be- " " hauled in like sheaves of wheat, bt/t, i:onvertbd, backslidersreclaimed,andday and night for the slain of. the cause we hauled in wheat. We have oh," we surely can win more people believm's arc sanctified wh oll'y.

daughter of my people., was the con- the best holiness church in the world; to God in an assembly year than Preach it until cm'nality comes to Hm

stant cry of the. weeping prophet, the best-trained, educated preachers . what we do. God help. us! light and "Agag". trembles and growsJeromiah. " ' in the land; better churches than No revival can be of permanent pale withfear. Let the dcpth-bombs

• twenty-five years ago; colleges anal duration and mail_tain:ctcrnal resUlts of God's truth bring the devil's U-

WIcile tile people are.lorgetting the seminary, and the best consecrated, .unless it is founded _apon the un- boats of carnality to the. surface tobe-Lord .

And church pews/_re empty and bare, . sanctified,:paying ehurch members-- changing :and unb/-eakablc: Word of ' destroyed...... out we don't thresh •_vhcfit because - God . There is a. tendency to compro- . The frozen sell of-sin must:be bro-.There Cbmes?to every l_eart the.so _VOdo.not h_iulih wheat. We never mist in these:days. But it is too late tO'on, up b_' the plowshare of divine

pier_ ng word_, " " " "thresh over old straw piles on the .now to let do_)n -the. bars. trim om ." truth.: You never? have:to apologize_"I] men go to. hell-:-wh.o cares?" farm.. We thresh new straw aBd re: sides, Cut the corners; when thou- whepprbacl_ingGod'sWord. The.fcar-

While the 'world rushes on in its _oliy .ceive newwheat, sands 'of Blood:bought,. judgment- ful judgments of God must be tearful-.. - " ' boui_l .precious souls are perfshing ly preached..We, db not needcircus-and sin . In the year 1951 (Herald of Holt- every; d,qy .ThatakGod the Nazarelac _ clown evangelists, just meresinging

And tho.usands go down in despair ness, Dccen3ber.26,•1951) we made a .. preacher does not compromise." revivals, or one-ti'ack-mind preaching,•To reign where demons arc shrieking. net "gain of membership of. 4.1 per_ . .

within, cent. one ' hundred: members plus d. It is the Word of God tha[ convicts, btit a revival of'the unchanging wordsof•the Master: The pi'cacher, who"I_ men go to hgll--who cares?"• p_st0r, Sunday-Sch0olstipei'ifitendent, converts, purifies, and blesses men - -never strikes "fire" in the pulpit will

• .- : N.Y.P.S. president;. W.F.M.S. :prem_ foday. Clear,cut preaching on re-Whacares? Who cares? 0 Lord, who dent, made a net gain'.of, only four . demptlon , Cal_,ary,:justification and never kindle a'_'blaze" in the pew,

ca_'es • .. . members. What is .wrong? Where is sanctificat!on is still needed in our Oui" church has been built underWhile tlie world rushes on in its sin the trbuble? .I am afl:aid we are bl0W- land.. Sin isstill, oh: a forward march, th_ bailnm: of holiness.. It has equally

. - and despair? , . ing our" whistle too loud. and long to The old man.still lives in the hearts become knbwh as a holiness churchI_ n_e_:.go to hell--who cares?, look i_t this figure. It took 8,119 church" .of the unsanctified men' and women, ih whatever.citywe have gone, and

rriembers o_.tbe_Central Ohio District Let ins not shrink or. di'aw back on People who enter, our doors expec{Reabhb_g' th e [.insured. Why 'is it to make a net gain in' rdembership of : . the prehching of .the. manifestations to have such--then let .us .not fail or

that only 8 per cen[ of our population 302 members.in thelast assembly year . of the: carnhl _tature. It" is still in cJisappoint them. The devil hates holt-go to cl/urch' off Sunday morning and "--less than 4 per cent. We must work' order to pi'each on 6arnality. We.do . ness. but the Nazarenes embrace it

" 2 per cent go to'church at night among harder, longer hours, less hours of not need.book reviews in our ptilpits, to their hearts and Will.preach it and.the 155,800,009 people in.ttie United sleep, to win others to fill our pews. " " but a review :of the teach_gs'of tl/e _hbut it till they die. We as pastors

• " " lonely Man of Galilee, It" is.not'what have •been. gi_cen a spiri!ual: ehnrch,States? Why is it thatour Sunday We.must haul•in wheat. If we-keep ..,. Abe Lincoln.would do if he we/'e alive made so my this great doct �¼�œ�truth.evening services and revival meet- our beloved Church .gaining in mona- . .ingsare minus the.sinlaOrs? "Why is " bership, ahd power, we mr/st briiqg today,'but•what •Christ will say when Let us'be lrue to God and our church:it today we are threshing over "old in the unsaved. If we' filled our pews " . He returns, that should be the theme let•our pre_aching he so freighted with

" strhw'_ in every revival campaign? everY, Sunday'night with sinners,.l_ow of. the. Pulpit: Personal, testimonies divine "unctibja and power that worldsAs a young fhi_mer lad, I -remember . much greater":Would" our _esults be! are great: bl0od-chilling, deathbed ltiaess and sin will be given such blowsclearly the old threshing machine and. Let 'the" drhnkards, " hums, harlots stories will stir high.tests of experl- they will gOxee}ing from fheir throne.threshing days. The Bib Huber steam come; Wemust have them. We would ences" upon" the congregation might Thank God for the rugged.truth_ The

•engin'c/rod, large 'Minneapolis sepa- rathei'.have them than empty, ghostly_ alarm; but it is still the words'of _he glorious remedy fm:.sin thunders inrater were the main summer attrac �barrenpews/Let the middle class . He] _ Bible that Willb_:ing everlasting the books" of Moses, "blazes in thetion on those hot. threshing days. chine, let the' rich come; we must fill " • results. _ " prophets_ sings in the songs of David,.Early in the. morning someone left our pews With sinners. If every Naza:- The pure Worcl0_'God is a devour- comforts in the Gospels, instructs inthe cozy farmhouse, went.out' to the re_ae membec of the Central Ohio : ' " " ing flame, a crushing hammer, a sharp the Eplstles, and triumphs in the lastbarn, harnessed ups team of horses District would bring one sinner to : instrument, and a saving power. The books of'the H01y Writ.to the farm wagon, and went away" chu_'ch every Suiaday night, what a . blessed Old Book is 'the only. book' Also we .need a. revival .of deeper

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altar work. Why.is it today w.e are noisy tones pretend a great desire for i " tion so they will know." should be the driving, Blood-bought,_hell-defeating,warming over many of our good souls, and yet Who evidences tb_- , 'prayer of every alfar worker. Such a soul-stirring revivals today• The

church members every time a new sham of this pretense,, by slipping t_ consecrated pra_,er willbring vit_tory words of David shouhl he our dailyrevival strikes rmr church? The rea- away as soon as the altar service is _ to tile seeking heart and rcleas_ show- prayer, "Wil.t thou. not. revive us

son they are.,"up and dowia" is not Well started, going home to laugh, . _.1"'_'" ors of Pentee,,skd fire upon the allor again: that.thy people marc _'ejoice in..that they do not want Gqd' or wish joke, mad car-ride to the midnight - scene.:. God. give; us. deeper soul- - thce'_" (Ps. 85:6.) -"_o go through.with God: There is a hour. Let .us all not be in a hurry burden,.eleat_cut experiences aroundtendency to think if we persuade" _to rusl_ home, edt' a bite, read the. tile altars today.

. - _ " ":We.Believe" or.. someone by tlae'ald of the Holy'Spirit newspaper, listen to our favorite.pro- Let us not. become discouraged with " "Tile Bible Teacbes'.'

'from the back pew' in the .altar of gram on the .air, while that poor, the results of ore: re_,ivals. Just be- (Continued from t_afte 29lmercy, our day!s work.is ended. 'N0, 'doubting Thomas struggles i_n for cause people do not "line" the 'altar " "that is just the.first step-for him on victory. Many a person' has -,arisen " the first night'.of the revival,:do.not leave us to" speculation on' the tel-tile. road.of.eternal life. We lthve no from our altars of prayer with tilat " think the. city is'doomed, and it is partant facts.which eoncern us,right to throff out " our "chests in -"dull ache" in his heart, gone out of .tiara for: the evangelist.to pack up and Some have declared they believespiritual pride"on'our huge success the elmreh doors, never to'retui_n, , to "leave on the eai'ly moi'ning train. Stay as they do just because the church

until that soul prays.clear through, embracq some strange :doctrine ' or by the job. "It was toe continual brunO- believes that way. Brethren, this iswrong• We must feel that what ouris established in holiness, unites with faith, and be lost from the influence ing ofGermany by American"flying church believes, is what the Bibletlle Church of the Nazarene, lives alife of faith,and steps into.the glory of our Church .forever. Why. this fortresses and the' R.A.F. that..broughtworld, tt is not the number at the trouble? Because we failed to pray. ultimatevictory. It is thfft contimml teaches. Others liave .said, "If myaltar of prayer during the. revival liim through whcfl lie' was under the " . boml.iin'g of 'sin arid earr/ality night tainChUrChthingsididn'tIwoi.ddn'taskme nOtseetO-anydOharmeer-that counts_ but those who will come _nfluerlce.of-our se_.vibes, it is easier ": after nigh_thpt will bring results. " - -to midweek prayer service, ten below to:sing, shout, and talk than it is'to .... Sometimes the gan_e was lost 'b_ churchmthem.'_fromTheY.theBible.areseparatingThechurch'the- . •cause we struck out with:men .on - " "zero; three months later that will be pray until the fixed'tiabits.of sm are basc_ We almost, madea touchdown .that sees .no wrong iii the"movies

broken -pray untilpardon and purity dancing, lodges, liquor, tobacco; nu-church.ablessing and addition to the local flo0ds'the seeking h_art. 'Ohe.seeking but failed and futnbled the" ball .on dilty,: immm'hlit:/, worldliness and

goul turningointo a happy finder'with _the last yard of.confliet_ Ob, let as looseness in conduct is not a BibleHow easy.i_ is to let men ._lip break through if. it takes two or.six

through.our.fingm:s to a dry pr0fes- a 'Pentecostal shout will change the " .-.. weeks. Sta.v at. the'job until the real. church and'therefore is just a social.... organi:_atiom .We did:_mt dig uFa be-'."sins' of : faith "even at our. Nazarene complexion.of the entire rev_'cal. Let •. - break comes. No pastor or evangelist lief against, these things--the •Bibleus go down deep in. the agonies of

" altars; to pat.them on the cheek, tickle, death, down s0 deep.in suffering with • has rile right to .say that .his fidd is teaches :,against thqm. It seems we_" thkm under the chin, fan them with. the Inst.'that ou £_,ili belike burned ov_r and God has taken His have iost'an"imp.act we should have.... departure tin.ill every savable, so.ul " had bynet-using.the langtiage, "THe

love,, scream, "Believe:," when down Moses of old, "Oh, this people "have : has been. presented with the gospel, .Bible teaches this ' Ji_st saying, '.'Thed_ep in theii" heartslie sin and cart 'sinned .a great sin, and have made every'florae in _;he city visited, every ehurcb believes, this," has led peoplenality, that n_ust he confessed, and them gods Of g01d. Yet now, if thou contact with-the ,lost been made, and away from Biblical convictions andbrought to light! Never hurry a.seek- wilt forgive their sin_"Right here.

• .all hulnan.efforts Been used to bring, down fhe road of possible unbelief.er through to an experience in grade. Moses' heart skips a beat, broken with ." tire.lost to the risen Lord. • Don't pass This.has placed us on the level of anGod Can save a soul in a second, s_ine- compassion" and mercy. "If not, blot . by hay soul,- but bring men in thetify albeliever as qulck as a flash then . me, I pray thee, out of thy book which "arms of faith,, do everything within ordirfary Church that sets up its ownlet us stel_ haek'and let Hi,m do it.' " tliou hast Written _' (Exod. 32: 32). _ y.our power to gave them for. God and idiosyncrasies as a .belief. Instead of

Nothing hut the comforting person- ' _hat a prayer! "We must pray the tile church. . dealing:with:people-aceording to the• ality of the Holy Spirit ean'_atisfy the . same. Come to the 'place where We church, we neefl to deal with them ac-

' human, heart. When a soul is eom- b._oflld sooner'die, blot out our names, The forward re'arch _f our church cording, to the Bible... When 'asked .• pletely sanctified he is satisfied .and _r than see-thai_ strugglings0ul I_as been made on the road of revivals., vchat stand our'church t_//ces on eer- " "

Whgn he is satisfied he :is _anctified.' 'l'O_,a_-e the altar t_mpty-handed. "O Onward,forward with i'evi')als. God tain issues,.let-us answer by the stand "Let people seek. Do not become weary Gocl, let me'if necessary be dry in my bless our good evangelists who carry.-,that_the Bible takes _s a Church ofin their coming, hut worrywhen:they soul;'buL give them some water out • this mighty 10ad. May the "revival the Nazarene the Bible is a'Lamp untbdo not come to "the. altar of mercy, of the wells of eternal life. Let me live • fires burn- mightily upon our l_aza- • our feet and a Light unto our path. "God have mercy upon tile evangelist the life of faith, but give them.some rene -altars. :God give us more :N6 longer ]etit he said; "We believe,"whose high fever of'expression .and kind .o_ manifestation or deinonstra-, Heaven-sent,. born- a g a in, .de_,il- but, "The Bible teaches/'

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Sin Is a Bad Bargain :i .satisfied longings. They wander, wilderness? WhenGod guides theresearching, seeking, .trying•to find a are no errors or detours. He leads "

Bf, RoberfG. Nielson_ way n! _afety and satisfaction. A strmght th['ough arid the way Heleadsyoung man speeds.through-his early is best. Tile wayfaring man,-Isaiah' " yeai's looking for- something to'satisfy, " tells..us, shall not eri" thereilt. . .

For what is a man .pro]ited," iS. he My. birthright! But, Jacob_ that's to ._ive hi01 h thrill. In. middle age, Your quest for truth must end wffhshall'gain the whole wo_Id, and lose my blessing as the eldest son, 'That settled in his-Work, he tries "through . Jesus: "I am the way, the truth, and.his own soul? or what :shaU a man eiatitles me to Father's wealJh, and mone_¢ and position to find pleasure the life:._ no man- cometh .unto. the _givein exchange ]or his soul? (Matt. tm heritage:of our great family." _. and happiness. As he .comes to'old Father, but by me." Your quest for16:26.} "I want your birthright, or you get age'he still is searching in.the twilight ' thirigs' must end with: "Seek ye.fi_st .

no pottage. : Is it a bargain?" Jacob _ hours of life, /ae'ver havihg found.the the !_ingdom of.God, and his right-" The, long evening shadows were insisted. " • . . " • i way that is_right. And on his death- eousness; "and all these things-shall

moving swiftly across the'sky over Esau thought a moment."I-Ie was t bed a_ he looks ahead.into the darl_ be added unto you:" Your quest forthe. Near.Eastern plains as a young about'to die with"hunger.. What good. _ night.'he still is needing something to joy must. end ":With: "Whosoever

hlsmanquivertUCkedandhiSstartedb°Wandfor.arrOWhome.into.itwW°Uld'.....any old. birthright do.? He z.. . bi-ing. ;-ecurity to "his fieart and .mint]. • drinketh of the w_iter that Lshall giveasn t interested m h_ritage Or bless- i " But a.man-does not have to r.vander hen shall, never thirst; but the water

has'been a. wonderful day to hunt, ingor anything.else'right imW,:What .though a rather unprofitable o_ae, he .unsatisfied through life. . that.I shall give him shall be in himthought, as he s|ung his empty hag he'wanted was loud'quickly. . ,, . " "

• ' i i I " , . _ well of water springing up into ever-over his shoulder." He-loved to hunt. - "All right, it s agreed.. Take the .. There _sa way. Across tiffs wilder:- • lasting life.". :A wellspring of joy willIt was great sport and it set the ad-. birthright," he'said, ness the King has.made a highway. ,ovei'ftow in your.imart.when you.take,.venturesome blood in his _ems tin- "Promise me that.y0u'll keep the " ".It is a way of salvation On which a Christ'sway. Here is seetirity for you.gling. Hewas justifiably proud'of his bargain," J_cob persisted• ."You get , - man 01_ woman may walk with pur- . . . • .. , ".reputation as one of the most cunning the pottage; I.getthe.birthright." pose, confidence, and trust. Here in II. EXCl-/ANCE OF PEACE FOR CAHNAL .

hunters in the land.'-But today he .... I promise_" said Esau. "Now let this way that Christ.offers is securlty. CONFLICTShad not lived up. to his i'eputation., me. eat."" For the man" bogged down in the . . ..Since early morning he hdd bagged And in that one moment Esau furs .swamp of bad habits, Christ says. "I J3ut sin is bad'bargaining, also, be-.nothing. . • :. " letted.• . all .the. blessings., and benefits am the Way_" For .the 'man sucked .cause if is the exchange of peace for• . " st ms posttion as eioest s0nin the ihto the quicl_sar/d of evil colripanions_ carnal conflicts.' As he climbed down the.jagged path famil of'Isaac • "

from his favorite hunting spot, and .. y . ;. -Christ says, "I am the way.'-' For the " One .of God's..most precious giftsxou .say it is just the story of a man trapped in the crevice, of selfish- - is the peacd and tranqtjillity which He

reached the smoother 'road .on the foolish bargain by a cai'eless young. : ness, Christ says, "I am. the way.'.' ' puts in the heart Of His children. It " " "

plain, he hurried his pace noticeably. man. But hoW many. "people today "" For the man parched on the _lesertof is a deep peace that comes 'fromHow.hungry he was! Hemoved rapid- are exchanging birthrigh_ for pot- " " prayerlessness, Christ says, "I am the : obedience: When we bow our wills13_over the three miles.reward home _age? "How many are thoughtlessly way " At:ross'the swamps:and qui_k_ to His will, wlaen we.submit our livesbec0ming. .mere. falntwi[h'each,, -_step"trac]ing.' their .siairitual; po'tentialities sands and deserts:, of life God has'to His direction, when'we yield our

•As he came•in sight of his. home he for temporary:enjoymenl: at sin_s bar- _ . flung the highway of salvation, and spirits .t0. His authority, we. receive •"

quickened his "pace. Then he could _ ."smell itl His brother 'had the meal gairicounter? " all who will may he lifted onto this an. inward peace., that is like the calm "

ready. He lifted his bag toltl_e grou3ad, Tonight; the world is full of Esaus I " way 'and live • and walk. above the in th 9' depths of the ocean. .loosened' his q/fiver, and hurried --meia and women {bho are making _ mire Of sin'. 'No need-for endless When a man's.will bends, andhe

.toward the tent. That pott'age-.whieh bad bai'gains.. They are exchanging .searchi/ag. when 0nee. . we have four/d " _-_-s_., "_n_..... ---Jmx_-----,Will --.hr'¢" --'""_,Th_na_o_hhpriceless spiritual possessions for the the security of thin highway of silva: -1'._: ,, ,," ,_- ._ - '- - ' ,-, -Jacob"knew how to cook so well . • ... ... . " uooe, men.tna_ sunmmsmn to _ou

tmn The world may brmg excite.would surely taste good tonight, cheap .trivialities of sin: And that is " ' " : " "bi'ings'peace, Complete submission to

_I'm starved," he called. "Give md bad bargaining., ment, hut. Christ. and Christ'alone, God means that we-abdieate'the'eonz - .will bring security. . - trol Of our very being and invite Him.

.sdmething [o eat." - : . L EXCHANGE "OF SECURITY"FOR UN" " Why should you wander on liSe'd to take the reir/s and rule completely,Slowl_,-hls brothei" turned toward cenram_, '• • . wildm:ncss?'. Who Would exchange" a The only way to .be "at. peace is to

him. _'All right, Esau, you can have " LiSe is a wilderness to the man " " good highway to wander in _in" un- be free from inner •Conflicts... Oursome pottage if you'.ll give me your without God. Go about our streets - .charted desert? . Who wofild exchange natures can be wholly harmonized

. b!r!hright'" . . and look men in the fiiee andyou see •] the security of God's highway ;of with God only when carnality, that•u_, s,,_o_s_,m0,̂ _0. _ all manner of hungry 'desires and un- salvation for endless searching in the - inner sinful nature that fights God's

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, .. will, is cleansed from ou'r hearts by surrounding peaks. It is always there, place or the •other. The question is, place to Satan is bad bargaining be-

the blessed Holy Spirit's indwelling, always th_ same, always peaceful. " " "Whet'e will you spend eternity?" cause it is the exchange of heaven for .

We get quiet when wc_:_iehl. And no Who would exchange aMt. Mans= The heritage el the Christian is "hell. Anything you might gain here :'greater quiet" can colhe to us thanthe field, with its cahn stateliness, and heaven. Tile caterpillar is not made would melt into nothing if you lostperfect immr i'claxatioti which floods unchanging serenity, for a belching " " to stayin the cocoon. He gro.ws wings your soul to get it. "For what is aour souls after carnal ,turmoil ha.q volcano and the destruction and dan- to fly in a bigger world• The chick man profited if b_ shall gain thet:eased. We will be at'rest down-to ger and deathwhich lie ia its path• is not made to remain in the egg. He whole world, and lose'his own sbh]:?the very'rootsof our beings when we " or'what shall a man give in exchangehave the consciousness of peace With Arid who. would" exchange .a soul has feet and wings and eyes:that eqtiip for his soul?"God. • that is at peace for dm guilt and rest- -'him for a greater sphere. And we are .. ..

' 9 lessness and conflict of _/carnal life? made for eternity. Our'souls needIs sm robbing you of this peace. "You are.li_'ing on a volcano's side if heaven to.consummate the hopes and" CONCLLrSmN:

Sin is a bad b.argain because _;hen you do not •know innerpeace from ..aspit'ations'of the Christian life. .Have you made some foolish ex-

you choose sin you trade this .deep- all conll!Ct. What a gloiqous climax heaven will " changes on sin's bargain counter?down peace far the inner conflicts of .... " ' : ': ' -carnality. Yo'dr .life without submis- You can•he delivered from the un- be! When the gates swing'wide_, we'lL theHaVepou_dingy°U"f°rfeitedofa guiltyinnerconscience?peaceforsion is a life' without peace. You may rest -of self-will, t_'om' the conflict of drop our sorrow and take up joy; Have you wandered in the wil¢lernesshave excitement but never peace. " •inner .wranglLiag._ Your Will is free we'll discard our Cross and accept ourYou may. plunge.yourself into your when it is subrfiitted to God's authori- .. crown; , we'll Break off praying" and .of :llfe, setirching for direcHontaiad

•begin to praise; we'll scorn death:and • joy? God stands ready'to take your "work and try to forget that:there is a ty. " welcome life. Living b_, faith will be' life that is marred, by sin's bargain

. turbulent pounding in _rour heart: but An unyielded heart•is likuta trou:" changed to living by sight! . " and give you peace, security _, and athe conflict is there just the same. bled volcano. There is no peace in it. •fitness 'for heaven." The old prophetAnd .it will always: be there nntil, you But Christ died that:you might have Wi_ a :prospect such as this, we was right, when- he said, "Let 'thebow _'our will in obedience. Desire peace. :The chastlsement of our peace" " 'can look death in the face and say wicked _forsake his way, and the un-pulls one way; reason pulls another, was ,laid upon Him. He. can change with Paul "0 death, where .is thy righteous .man 'his thoughts: and let

sting?.O grave, where is thy wctory, him return" unto the Lord, and heThere is _i Schism between what you the turbulent potlnding era 'guilty '."The sting 9f death is sin and the _ ut,_._mo_,_ ,,_r, _,_. _d to ourdo and what you ought to do: Your heart into the-inexpressible peace, of ..... ............... #_r ....... , "- . •Strength Of sin is the law. But thanks "God, for he will abundantly parcl0n."inner self is full of contl'adictions if His indv_elling presence. " " " '

• be to Gdd, .which giveth us the victory God's great offer of salvation comesyou have not let God harmoiaize your . . , .. . . •

nature with Him. III. EXCHAUGE OF H_,WN FOa HELL" " " through°ur !:'0rd JeSUSeChrist':'_This is but .a glfmps ot the tO _,ou.. From thebyways of sin you; ' i " . ' i"-..dan be raised tothe hlghway'of.salva-• in

Look into your heal"t. Does-a'con- Sin "is a bad bargain." To take t_e. _ . heritance of" God's children, tion. " " " " "

flier" take the place of inner peace? ' Is way of sin means to forfeit, security, .But..you may left'it heaven. You -there a restlessness and a turbulence to f0rfe.it peace, and to exchange "because-! you are seemingly, at war heaven for hell. " can forfeit all of these..benefits of THE APPEAL:with yourself? Is there frustrationbe- heaven .if tonight you choose to leave Young Ton3 Crocker's future lookedcause your self-will wants you to do Men of all ages have accepted the Christ out of your life, To" exchange ' bright when he became a"clerk in a5he. thing and your conscience ti_lls truth that beyond this life there is an " God's way for Satan's, way is to ex- Detroit court. But his drinking be-you to do'another?" eternal life where the hopes Of this .change heaven for. hell. 'Instead of came increasingly, heavy. He .was

- _ " " ' life axe realized" and rewards and the happiness and peace.and purity gi_,eri morphine to quiet his'nerves,There:is ohly'one way for'you to pdnishments g_ven. There have been . : of ".heaven yo(tr lot will .he the and..thcn" mqrphine got him. To get

be: at peace with' you_.self through various Beliefs as to What heaven is wretched misery Of an eternity apart more morphine he started t,akingand:through and that is to make youi. 1 k, h, ) ?,1! h_,,_ ..... ,_')_'.)_,,,_,, :' • . - • • '..... , ........... _.......... _-_._. from. God and all that is holy. A place court funds, 'and then the ineyitable .peace wxth God Lot the Sprat , • " his

• ' • " ar_ .eternity. There mUSt be a place of bitten' remembrance of s_paration happened. W_th job gone, he lost "cleanse out carnality and fill _ou _qitb . Where the inequalities of this life are and torment, hell will receive those every stabilizing force .in his life and •_

- " * )Sdivine lo')e, balanced. Jesus 'corffirmed .the fact - whom :Satan • has" deluded with the soon became Skid Row worst. He.

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Mt- Mansfield st ands..among the Of a life' he_:eafter when He came ..... ghtter and glamour of sm. , There ts slept under the bushes m .a- pa k orhills 0f:Vermont as a symbol of.great .' fortla from the grave. He inaugurated a way which seemeth right unto e on a dirty mattress £u-a flophouse.Strength -and sereriity "to the people• a new type of life, an etei'nal, resur- man, but the end thereof" are the Getting. the next drlnk.was his only

who live in its shadow.' As they look rected life: in which there.is no death. _ ways of death.'! Simply to neglect interest. The days and'weeks had noout, acroSs.the- valleYs,: they see its And' every man determines by 'his your salvation is to give Satan first meaning. "for him: When delirium

-" calm splendor Standing tiigh above choices whether•he Wil! go to the one place in your life.'.. And to yield.first" tremens struck'him, he dragged.him-

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• ' _' self to the Salvation Army. Maybe .Crocker found. You can be satisfied• ' "

this prayin' business will help, he Youcan be secure• .You can.be.sure _T [- thought. He prayed for three days of heh_'en.. .._ P R • A C . . . C. A k . - :..b•while he, nearly went crazy for adrink, but it'_qorked. God saved him, " - "

He started tellin_ "the stqry-, of" his The Sick Man in Your Parish • - The Pastor's Workshopconversion in Salvation Army street , (Cbntinued lrom page 5) " " .meetingsand mission halle. Ite was: " " -

-soon put in cb.argc' of Delroit's Michl- 3, Make.your visit •short. Never rrnF, rtE lies on nay desk an interest- .ship as _,/cll _s the friends of thegan _.venue mssion-to try" to stem the over fifteen minutes. . _ ling bi'bchure of-a fund'of inforffJa- clmrcli. " "g/'o(ving tide of SkidRow. derelicts: " 4. Don't joke over hospitalization, tibh in.the form, of.a kit for pastors. Page 1-1:Buff color. Foreword. ac-

'(3no callsfor the' "lk/iiviister 's Practical knowledgmeots_ and names of tltc"ILatef. in the Harbor Light Corp_, il'a. fit is much better,to be.hoMe than it .- , i Idea Kit" 'and may be .obtained at-a church . board. Reverse side--th'e. Chicago: he" continued his work of 5;"to he in the bes.t lmspital in ,the * _ cost 0t $2.50 per year. During the . Sunday:school report ....

rescuing men from the living hell'he nation.') .... . " q year o_,er two hundred ideas arc pro- Page 2--:Gray color, Missions re-onde knew. He worked'in thecotirls, 5. Make no i'cmarks about' the _ sented to :th_ subscriber in. unique port. Reverse side--rN.Y.P.S, report.

• .where judges turned ovm'•seemingly disease if at all possiblel Don't tell the- t form; Of course, not all of these ideas Page 3_Yel!o)v. color. Boy Scoutshopeless drunk_; to hi.m. Stoeky,'200- patient hew "he looks..•In fact. don't would' "6lick," .but even if 25 per find summer camps. Reverse sider---_• , • r

pound. Tom Crodker now stands be- talk too much but be hn:'intelli,qept cent of them helped, it ,_bould be well annual fmancml repot and graph.

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fore. these meo and says: " "If you . listener. Qutetuess. and ease and con- worth the_priee. Kits from pa.st years Page .4---Gl'cen color. Pastor s a -really want'.to lick Skkt:Row. I ba_'e 'fidencc are contagious " may also be obtained at the same price "nual report. Reverse side_continimdthe answer. , . Once I was-just like " " 'Z' : " ' - -you. "but God szived me..And -what 6. Den t apologl e. for:-not coming. " dnless two are ordered;-tticn the price report.and bulletin squibs.God did fob me He can do "for you, sooner; maybe he hasn!t .ihissed you. grades down •There are also ".Sunday . .Page 5--Pink color. I-Iome missions.if youql hblp:" I_is success is, evi- Don't cross-examine the patient but School Idea Kits.'" "For Women REverse side'building fund fihancial

denccd by the fact'thM he has over create a sl_irit of optimism andmake ' _ Only," ."HL_b.... School SomEtY" Kit." plans..Page 6--Gray'col6r. °Both sides_"1.500 members in his Converts' Club him'feel that it is .wonderful to have " and btbers,. " ' "

" in Chicago. • " such a pastor. We. are sorry that the Publishing churchlalsedii'ect°ry/"ha_eone of greater preten- "

" And "last .January, Captain 'Tom 7.'!:Don't-fail(to call eel the sick.. House does not have access to'. ttiesale of. tlmsc items: but one can obtain 'sion', but the above is d mimeographCi'ocker was selected the "Chicagoan Here is your fii'st ministry in arty . . -of th_ Year" by the Junior Association type'0f calling• • them from the. Church Extension joy and it seems that the newer ma-.... .- Service, P:O. Box'552, Golden, Cole-. chines produce-very fine. work. Of

• of Coldmerce. . . . . ra_o'. Whe'n purchasing, ple'ase men: ecru:so if a church, can afford such'a

Tom Crocker found sin ,'/bad bar- The Minister a Voiceef Authority lion the. PnEnen_n Macaztt_e froin printii_g item_ it wot/ld be desirable;'gain, 'but 'God saved him. Now peace : • • . the" Nazarene Publisb_ng :House and." but _'emembcr, such a compiled reportand joy take the .place of the misery (Contintied l¢om page 21) " _._te_:ill apprecmte it.._ : _s a wonderful timesaver at the an-Of Skid Row. "No matter bo)v far you ., • . nual meeting.. .have wandered, you tqo may find thoughts," aims. and-.impulses can. . - v,. . . .

surge _througl_. Only _hen we a're : Recently my friend, l_ev. Leo Stein- " . "peace. Do you trove.rest and. calm filled wifll the •Holy'.Spifi[ m:e-,,:_'e lager, who has. pastored th_ Waikikl There has come to my hanttla littlewitlfin or.the pounding'of n guilty brought into' true "pdrtnership with •- heart? Do yea experience the securi- ChUrch of the Nazarene in the Hawai- pamphlet bi'ief'butdynamic. In fact "

• God:: Only•then'can ':_e hecbme true tan Islands, and is now a professm_ " ther_ are two of them. The first .isty tl/at cpmes with"trust in God, or at the Canadian Nazal'ene College. entitled A R6ad Map _or gei'mm_s, byare you se_irching•endlessly in the leaders in His flock. . • .wilderness of life? Is yours the.prom- . "And Ye.mY floel_, the flock.kif'my. " " sent m e his annual report dressed up Dwight, StevenSon. It directs the,ise, '!In my Father's borise are many pasture, are men,'.and I am your God. i_ a very attractive manner. The preacher in a plan of preparation.

mansiofid'. , . I go to prcpai'e a place saith the Lord.!' cover is yellow (cardboard), carry- which would make his work more sys-_'" ing on the front the pictures of tlie i_ematic and forceful• Also there isfor you:'? Or will your pgrtion" be. "But when he saw the mult tudcs.

"_ "Depm't from me... I nevcr'kne_" he was moved,_ith ,compassion on district superi n_tendent and wife as one on the how of preparing aft expo-Y°u''?. • them, bdcauffe they faintdd,.and'were well as the pastor and: wi'fe. Each .sitional sermon. Now here is'_t great

page i,s a differe at 'color and reprO- nded in the:Nazarene ministry, for• " " .Sin is a bad bargain.•Exchange it,. scattered abroad, as sheep hay ng no s0nts a.different department. It makes the laity lined expository material

--_ " tonigl_t. Come and Jind what Tom shepherd."- " .... a very nice souvenir for the member- once In a while, to ground them more.42 1 1, The Proochor'_Maqazlno • • _- 43

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_/ " " TItEME: Hearts Set on Maturity 1 Spcccli is'not clear. Mind Con-

• . ..... .-w-_=_r-_,w_._/.-_.r..t_,d';i.'_'-t,_"?__'_ _ ' . =_-=ttt"! TEXT: "Set your hearts on / this ma_ fused, express on confused. = Some-" turity":(II Cor. 13:11, Phillips trans- • times it is unintelligible-jargon.

thoroug lly in their study 5f'the' Word _in.affendance. Some people challenge, lation). "Become perfected!'. .(II Cor. is a.in,.theLaCkmindOfabilitYinan intelligiblet°express whatman..of God. I would recommdud them to tile value ofRally. Day, but the writer . 13:.11): . - - .....yo'u. YOU can purchase .'them from ix of the opinion that it is a fine way : ner, " " -

the Nazarene Publishing •House; and to get strangers to come to. your" INTRODUCTION: 1. In theearly pal't..'b. Speech is :tJnreah " "

each item costs twenty-flve cents. . church, especially tile parents.: of bf.the First Epistle tothe COrinthians. (1) DE Ktmkel says the.;ideal• -- St. Paul wrote, "I..:. could not speak family :for environment is adult re-"Sunday-school .'.children, who are

- :. proud to see tbeir children perform, unto. you as unto spirffual, but as • male, adult' maid, female child, andWhile I wasconducting a revival Also if onn soul continues "to come unto carnal, even as unto babes in male .child. Each individual should'

I recently in the city bf O_mttland, Call- and finds the Lord (generally, there:. Cbrist." - " represent a phhse of personal develop- .fornia, h versatile Sunddy-:schooI su- are'many more if a follow-up is con_ a. They were babesin Christ• They meat and a-sector of family life. Heperintendent used a planfof a rally ducted), it would pay. " - - had'begun to live as Christians. ' But needs tothink logically and act de-day which would pperht_ j_st about " " " a carnal condition, hindered, theiranywhere. He. used a streamer of cisively" like a mature man; to. feel •painter's sign - growth. There were .qtrife and divi- an'd love like a matdre woman; to be

cloth aboutrtwenty feet- Send in your ideas to 'the editor, sions.mnong them. .They needed a. alive to ihe. mythical and legendarylong and four feel: witle. In the beater Share your successes with some other cure for :tlae carnal condition and they qualities of life li!_e a girl; to be. ag_was a big red 'splash" of l_aint, and in pastor._ Let us all co-operate. " needed, to grow in'grace.

:the eenter'of the splash_4:ere painted ' • gri_ssive for theright and enjoy group ", 2. "In the great.thirteenth chapter activities like'a boy. -.. " " "

the :_'ords, "All NamesRally .Day -of First Coi'inthians. St: Paul speaksOn the bottom of tile srgn was the The Significahee of Pentecost - • (2) 'However, to be alive to thequestion "Is vn,,_ ,_ , " . of-himself. "When [ was a child, I m_jthical and legendary qualities ofher 9- .... o---. -ame. wmtten (Contfnued./rom "Page'10) spake as a child. I. understood as a lifeto a 'certain. extent is all i'ight,

worlc_d on the job0f inviting people. " " "e. Then. the entire congregation mg them mwardly.clean.in prcp_ira- child, I thought as a child: but when butit is childish to live'in.the, unreal,to come OUt to Rally'Day, and .w/len. tio_ :fro; complete and uncontested " • I I_ecamd a man, I put. away" cbildisli- reahn, your-speech being unreal. It

possessmn and dominion by His Spirit.- .things," . is a sign of inamatur_ty to speak f/'oma person promised iris lasttnam6 was in t}ie midst of the genera/.maul.. • " - 3. Now ,at the close of tl_e second iinagination, or limited :'knowledge .aspainted..on the sign--not the first festatibn of:God's presence there wasname but.only the last, like'Smith;" an individualization_ _ . epistle'to the samel people, St. 'Paul facts things that eanaot.b e supported:

ol- personal maul- - _ays, "Finally, brethrenl.fa/'ewell. Be B. In understandlng.Jones Pattei'son, etc." Then dll" would festation, providing for the personal " - perfect_'.' Or, "Be perfected." In the 1; The intellect is feeble.

.thatmake..name'.could.aneffort.. ,'t°beSeereachcdb°Wmanyfarpar-"°f Thus,C°nditi°nSwhileandth[s:needs".of. each.. disciplc_ " . Phillips 'translation "it is_ "Set. your 2. Understanitlng is sensuous--_mpahon. m th_s "All Names 'Rally" tifi_-_ti,,,," _¢ ,t. _url( matron Or Sane- " -lmarts on tiffs maturity." mer_l_i frpm.the senses. Miod eat:thly._ay_ By the end of the we ^i-',_:" -. _"_ .... ._ne mse_p_es' .tuner na- " ". 4. The normal desire is to grow up and material things.. - .L - . . . ., , _- ,tt_c tures was. prunarily neatlvnames, pamtea in all ebmrs and -- g " e, lit was to become mature. 3. Understanding from relativeness.

• ' " "¢_i a necessary and ! adequhte provisibn - a. This is so nzituraily, and it is Child judges things by relationship to -random angles, filled the entire area,• of .God for the pomtlve work .which• true spir!tually. . . sell. He_docs.not understand others.and also created wide interest during was to "immediately follow, namely, " - " b.It is true, however, that we never C. In reasoning; %; thought as a

the revival, as it:.Was placed oh the ./he complete possession of.their inner " " r " " '" "• a rwe. It m. a crime to catch up With child.'! • - " -.wide wall ofthe main auditorium. We beings by .the personal presence of your own hori_,ons. 1. Draws conclusions fi'om passing

.._ are showing a picture Of the sign, so the Holy _pirit, giving them power.. ". theidea will be'understood_ Any.local over'sin, the World, and the devil, anti . I. We ln_st, however, begin with impressions and Unfounded eonjec-

_. artist could do the Worlc. Keep it .'energizing them with a-dynamic . IMMATURITY. tm'es. Has an. insufficiency of data." -_ . . " • . .... 2. Reas6n from the iuipulse of de-neat-looking and clean, and hastily.' spiritual fete'or for the Pi:oclmnation . . A. This is the case in relation to sire. - . .call the roll on Sunday mo'rning, and of. the gospel of Christ to all men speech. "I spalte as a child." a. The'Wish is father to the thought.

will be. surprised at the.number throughot_t the world0f their day. • - D. "But .when'I became a man." "44 . , . . ,_1o_ h_qeles, Call_ot_a -

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1. Slmuld assmne growth and'prog- _. lllustrat{0n of the mighty oak. a. Paul findSilas'sang at midx:fight, dev0t_r which enrich our souls: and" many are-the hunters of wealth antiross toward nmturity, .'. B. Means a person Who has gained " 3. For resiliency. " art who do not roast that'wtiich they

a. Bernard Shaw:. "The only man by experience. -. - "

who 'behaves. sensibly is my tailor; 1. He has made a gain by losses.. ':" III:. How 7o G^xN MJx'rbm_Y.,'. ' • take3, inHenryh_nting.Thoreaucynically saidhe takes my measure anew every Expericnce_ of life have been refining. ." A. Set heart upota it. " whenhe learnedof'the laying of the

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time he sees me. while all the _est a. If.ypu will let it, life will knock • 1- Jesus Christ the ego-ideal. • Fo - ^,, "'- cable "Yes: it'g Wonderful,go on 'with their old measurements, the 'egotisnr and coekirie_s out of you: ":- " : -,.: 1_,e _ Chi_ist" _.'All things l_• ., _ ' .to me _0,_ ..... . ,,. • ably t e first news that, comes . .

b. Dr. Stldgcr tells of a curious b. The 'stronger a man's.character ' work together for good'r- conformity ove_" it willbeti_'a['Prihcess Adcmiae.letter, he receivekl. "I had.this curious- becomes, the less attention he pays to " to'the image of hm=Son. has the whooping cough.ly illustrated'in a letter I recently re- his own 'ills and thd more attention B. Discipline self fbr'it

• ceived from a dear eighty-year-old" he p,5:_s to _he ills of others. . _ Man whc man would be " - --woman, aMrs. Supple of Pittsburgh, 2. You can live and learn by expe- Must rule the'empire o[ himself.-- TnEMZ: The Present ImperatiVe .Pennsylvania. She wrote, me ,_ race: rmnce. : Shelley._ ". . '): ' " : . T_xx: II Peter 3:_.4-18

letter which.started off, 'My dear Wil- 3."Wlh. Shakespeare wrote: -. C Be a learner with a purpose. NTaOaOCTIOS: "1, The Christian faces"lie:' and I'knew at nnce that she must The're is a kind el character i_t thy life -..Study tb "show thyself approted _ife a_ it.is arid has 'expectations forhave known me in M6undsville,'West That to.the absorber doth thy histm'y . unto" God.': Pl:ofit by 'Paros' Say., the future. " " " " "Vii'gin:a, when I Was a child. And, ._ldlll no)told. _. .sure enough, that was a good'guess, .Personal histo_'y tells. . "What can .I get out of this experi- .In Peter's day the coming of thefor as the -letter continued she said: 4. Things that experiejice adds. once?" " " I_oTd was expected. : "'I remember ybu as'the little .seven- a. 'Adds. if one w,_nts 'it. under-: D. Use'your gains. _ (1) Scoffers were encountered.

year-old boy,', sitting hlgh.up m ,'in standing. (Ezeki'cl said, "I-s_it_where. 1. In tim twelfth'chapter of the-.then. " ....apple tree, wire spit on me wheh I .they sat.") Adds pati_hce, kindness. • . Book of .Proverbff is this bit of wis- (2.) Explanation was that the delaypassed under that tree.r skills• ' dam: "The stbtliful man roasteth not of the coming wah salvatibn. " God

"Now it would not be quite fairto . C. Means a. testedlife: that which he took in.hunting: but the Waits in patience. He'is_"not willing

judge me today, at the hhlf-century.: 1. For courage. .precious substance of men is to the that any should perish, :etc." A nd'a" '. diligent" (A.R.V.). Th.is he:helot thousand years is as one day to the

mark, by-what I did whorl Iwas seven " a.: Cai'ncro and Max .Boc.r. As a .... prnverb calls, to my mind a:hunting:, . Lord, and_ one,.-edaYwillaSncomethousandwhentheYears"years of age. I have long si_/ce ceased rule. ministers do not draw illustra- men'are fond of hunting " o "_ne inn .climbing apple trees, or spitting on ifi- tions from prize fights: but bishops. . " " camp.. M0st _ ., ".,, . ,t._ a_,, of the" Laird' shall dawn--then.

" . In facti'there m s_acn a mrmm _,,c_ u,_. .... , . .... . ..nocent people'_Yho pass finder apple must look into a ntnnher of matter.4 chase that even a. lazY" man likes to ,'eternity :w_lt negro. - "trees. I hope I have grown a little if they are.to advise the'clergy What 2_.

• since those days and. have changed .. to. a_'oid..Some years .ago two Jndi- .hunt. But the dressing and roasting. .• At that day there will be a dis-my-waysa 10t." I rather liked the way _ of the anita _als caught ar.e'not so eft-. •solution "o! things.-'This e0uld be so

.viduals were to _ight for the so-Called. ' " "sportsman, hfiving xvith the explosion of a 'hydroge n ....that letter opened; and 'I have re- hbavy\veiglat :cl_mnpionsl_ip of _ the gaging." Hence the batch, leaves .the bomb'_ But things pasS:away anyway.ceived at lea_t a'dozen of fliem start- world. One was an Italian. named .... - made his kill oring off.' 'Dear Willie.' li gives me a Cm'nero. betterknown for bulk than drudger_;'Ao th e paid guides. The zest They are of re'ere instrumental value.'littletouch of homesickness,'but'nev- brhlns. The other was -Max Baer, of the chase ends withthe Catching.: Things .wear out, decay. The Bible

crtheless I like it: but'I don't want with a "prqpeusity for "Wisecracking, That.:is the truth in theold proverb," speaks even eL gold becoming can-- " wrote of the

my Moandsville friends to think, that who was athome uporl the_ vaudeville The slot.hful man roastcth not that _kei'ed. :The hymn writerI stillthrow stones at people,:or spit . stage.. In the' midst of that fight, each. whicli he took in hun/ring." " close of the day. He'said* "Chang_e• find'decay in=an around I See ..... 33on them." . swurtg'at l!he other,':cach missed,:ea'ch 2. Goring lind collected treasures3[I: MATUnlTY. This is not absolute., fell to the .canvas. an.'.d"the crowds "" " fi'oln all the-' plundered Corners of' .Thou. who. changestn9t abide withfiaeY Being cognizant of this, what

"_Europe. Specimens of finest art stoodbut relative. .withessed the .sorry spectacle of'two alongside the cheapest'chromos. The manrier'of lJersons ought we to he?

" " ' : ' fighters lying iu' the .midst of the ring ".vulgarity o["the placearld the .lack of _; At that day there will be renova-A;. Means strength. - • fhci/)g eacl:t'0ther, Before Carnero _ " • " w heavens, an_l1. First is life• The ifitcrnal organ:- cbuld rise, Bael" grinned and said. " d serifi_inatinn showed that the owner tion and creatmn_ ne

zation and' adjustmofit Which means "The last one.up is a sissy." It may" . did not appreciate the values of wlmt a ne_ earth, wherein dwelleth right'" strength. " " be necessary f(u' ns to'repeat that he had. ctillecfcd- We may adorn our eousness," in which nothing but good

a. Born again, Thc.fulhH._ss'of'life.. line today, "The last one up is' a .,.wallS.withoxquisitepicturesand line Shall live. - ' •

2. Thc_ comes strength, by develop- ._'ssy. " " "_-:- " " " "'nuritis:Shelves "wiih:i'arethebooks and artediti°n_'wementallyBUt strived4'AtandtheaendnewWhenheaventhingSand'eartharedis-. . v " " "'" 47,meut. 2. For staLl] ity., r 1" . . . I " .

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t_ " created, what we have :been and arc a Character (p. 95). Character is • 4. But warned that "we may fall ,miss Itis i)Ian fq/: our ]ives.--Gospel

will determine our destiny, what a person is--not what.he is sup ..... _ from Our own.steadfastness. He,'aid.5. From the present standpoint.we posed t _ be. It is not shaped by trifles" C. Danger though we have known b. , When the bird stopped strug-

face the present imperative, InelucT- .any more than niarble is sedlptured these things before, gling (I.C.S. 720). Wordsworth, ined in it is:

. . ' . " by l_offs of air..Only thr0ii'gh bard :i 1. Know that we fire liVing in ene of his poems, tells about a'birdI. TIlE WAI1NINQ OF DANGER. (i'Be- stru'ggles and stern conflicts With destiny. , -. "tlmt was carried fl'om Norway bl] a

ware lest ye also,, belay, led away with" temptation, and rest)lute self-mastery 2.. Know the things revealed" "in storm. It fough_ bard. against the galethe error of the wiclied, fall from does- this divine principle manifes t- the Word o.f Go_l, which determine in.its effort, to win its way back to

_¢our own stedfastness.") ._ itself: The slmrpness of our trials and ¢Jestiny. . Norway, but all tn vai)a. 'At last it..A The-warning of:danger is be- the. h,Srdness of but" lot _;how:what'. 3. Though" we have known tlmsc yielded to the wind, and instead of

• c:ause the Christim_.is not absolutely w_.are.apd. How long we. will last. things, amy be led away.with the heine carried to destruction it was

" .secure. He lives under a probation- Character.is a fortune.. It pays fa_- error of the wicked, borne tothe.warm shdre_ of England,ary .ec(_nomy with fee possibility of to the green meadows and forests. Sotrends in the Wrong dii'eetion, better dividends than bank or rail- • a: Scpm'ate the -Scriptt/rcs f_'om whe_i we try :to fight against Gbd's

road stock..In every e nergeney, il is tlieir appliration to,us,. - - • will we are making efforts" which will• 1. Peter gave the warning in-his the man. of character who 'is sought." PentecostM sermon to save yourselves b. 'Change tlm Scriptures .to make come to naught, and are•doing so to

Character once lost is los). "forever. A them countenance evil practices and our own injury .arid. loss. But it"wefrom this untowar d generatiom shattered cha_'acter nmy.b/_ retrieved lawless practices, williiigly accept God's .will, it Will be

2. Here 'he. speaksof being led in part,• but can never be restored.to 4, Should open o_r hearts'to the .for our good; we shall he berfie on.away with the errorof the wicked; &its original SiXength a'nd p'erfectim'_. " confirmed impression of the h01y to-blessedness and joy.

We encounter the subtle influenceof Tile physician may cure the body and Wprd_ We should, simply accept it II. THE DILmEN(:E. •("Be dj!igent4hat" " "

isenVir°nmentstrong,but Godisandatnmspheri_.able.Thisl . fi_ind,evenfindbut,therearemedY_sno fOr.pqwertheondise_/sedearth and let it work the will of. God in us.- .ye" may be found- of him in" peae_,B, Warned of lo_ing position oi" . tha't'can assuage the'Pain 0f thehearts - a." Missing God's.plan. Agentleman

stability, that are consumed.by terrible and un- - A. Means to steadily apply.your-. " - • . captured two baby eagles and. rai_ed without spot, and blameless.")'

..... them wi_,h "great care They grew •to •1.. This is net"an ideal steadfastness avadmg remorse. - ..... ,. . _:"., ;, 1 : • self to be always prepared before God., - be line specimens at thin annie _ntra,.. , _,.. . • . __

hut' a real steadfastness--".Your ownt The alcove may.'have been Written until'erie.day the'door of their cage ±. x_ot careless intermittent _;nris-stedfastness:" " - " "

from a nominally Christian, or per- . . was' left: open by" accident and the tian application but a'steady, cantin-a. ' Tests of. sanctified character. •hans orily - • - al, standpoint; but is

Some" of the amd"• tests" of sanctffm(_'" " "'" tb ]nuel_ " birds escaped. One flew to. a 'nearby. ual procedure that:produces.character ere not truth contained in tree, where it i'oostcd on alow'branch, B. That when the unveiling timewill al_i, ays be:. th(i statements, and'isit not because .for it.cauld not use its wings, never., games We may be without spot ahd

without(I)C_inearthly.yOureward?lobarorl' cheeP'fully.. of this state of affairs that many, haY- having learned to fly except in .the _blameless.,.1. " ' i ,,in.g made a misstep m one d reciion close.confinement of its cage: It was To" be found meaff_ I "in" the in-

(2):'Can'you toil onhopefullyi, vlth. or aflotberl throw their lives away, n0t long until it met .an untimely, vestigation.hy.the Lord Jesus Christ."out tangible, retut'ns? . " " " selling themselves t,'is t: were) to sin " death by'tl/e _gun of a hunter. The 2: It is to be found With(Jut spbt.

(3) Can. you travel the road of hnd"shame? But. while eharactei.' . other eagle felt or was knocked.'.Thismbansdefilementby.engagementfrequent criticism without bitterness? once lost' can never be restored Io .its into a- swift41owing, river and was in evil..Pure religion is to keep fin-"

(4) Can you lift and'.agonize and original strength.and no power upon i . drowned. Both of thesis'eagles missed spotted fro m the world. " -sacrifice and pray and give, away. cart/) can assuage the pain .of hearts ".•God's plan for theii" lives by being _i. BillyBra_¢ worked in mines withdown out of sight, While others lead consumed by remorse: yet there is , - taken captive by man. They were evil men." : " .

: : ; the' procession ahd receive the h0n-. hope in Jesus, who came from heaven created "to "li',;e. in high :places and. to 3. -It means to be blameless. .ors? In .other words, are you willing arid of whom it was said, "He shall " .... soar aloft in the•sky, but. instead they a. This iS a relative matter.to be Soil in whieh providential events save his people..fr0m :their sins:" This " were doomed to live on the gi'ound " b. Does not. mean faultless. " "may grow while others.fill the p|ae_s " hope lifts us even above Adamie' _Per=. " : and to meet "hn early" ddath, c. To his. own master a servant .of.leaves and blossoms on the trees ..fection, making us flew creatures, old" of :time? God created'you and'me to live ori standeth or falleth. - " '

things having passed, away. and all- - a high plane and to carry out the d. Others may blame us, for they " "2_..The 'real establishifig, grace of • things hee0mlng r_ew;lmving received ' great plans He has.foi? oiJr:lives. May do not underfftand us.

holiness. :- " "'" :- a right spirit within, us. The world we ha_'e Wlsdom to yield our lives . e. Can be in 'a condition soj.that3. Established by establislied good ig_iorcs the sinner; Chris| lifts him - : to Him. so that the farces'of sin may _vhen Christ investigates us we will.

of devotion a!ad !tying; up._A. L. HALTEMAN. " " not take' us captive and cause us to be blameless.48

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" - (1) Mastel:, tbe tempest is raging, healing. Begins page 175 of A .Ma_4, If with0/_t- spot and blamel/-_ss, intellectual app'rehension, it means ac .... _,,' • - _, "Carest thou 'not that x_,e perish., Called Peter. ,it is through Christ and means we quaintance with tile Saviour.

are in peace. 1. A gi'cat deal marc than.tbe first (2) In God's good t!me. "The late .a. Peace found in' Him {488). From introduction It means much living Dr. Jo_vett said thai he was once m TI-IEMg: OUt" Fatber's Favors

•very _mcient timbs the ]marts of-men with Him. and He with you.- It is pos-. a most pitiful'per_plcxity and consult- TExw: "I bow my knees unto thehave longed fog peace. Noti'merely sible to get more and nmre iotinmte " ed Dr. Berr:? of Wolverlmmpton. -Eather of our Lord Jesus Christ . . .

that there shall be no more war. with Hiob nearer to Him, and franker t 'What would you do if you were in that he would grant you'!.(Eph. 3-14:

thmigh that too; but more particular- and more cordial with l-lira day."by i my pla_:e?' he" entreated. 'I don't 16)•ly peace of mind and heart. In tlle .day. " , know, Jowett', I:'am not tliere yet. ' : . " " "early days of Israel we have the ben, e- . 2. Knowledge of Clu-ist, the anoint- ] And, you are not there yet.' Wb'en It_raouucTloN: . .• . " . i , y

diction, "The Lord lift up his counte- cd One. He is the ttl41y authoritative ". i .JowetthaveyOUreplied.toact?' _Then,'OnFrlday,.hnswdrcdDr:earthlyl',Christ_fathdrSpOkegiving'in'.analogygoodgifts qfunto.ari'n_,nce upon thee. and give thee One.. . • _ Berry, 'you will fiml your way per- bis children'. "Such is the naturd of'apence," Tbe Sanskrit iflvocations en'd a. Fi'rld out more arid _mre ha(v," . [ectly clear on Friday. The Lot0 will normal earthly father. (lhrist thenwith, '_Peaee. peace, peace?_ The. trtie and right Christ is. ' " : nt)t fail you.' And stirely en _ _gh, on used the "how nmch more'"argument,Mohammedan .greeting is, as of 01d, /_. Romao Catholics say, ""The " . . -Friday all.was plain. Give God ti _e, stating thai: Our Hea:venly Father will

-"Peace be. upon thee." Cbm'ch produced the Bible; there- -. and even when,tlm knife flashes in give the Holy-Spirlt and give good• :Where can'we_secure this peace.that tel'e-the Chui'ch, not the Bible, is the - tile air the ram will bc seen caught things"to them that ask Him. We

men have longed for through many place of ahthority." The reply, to this " _ in -the thicket. Give God time,, and honor our e'art'hly fathers todziy. But

i:entm:ies_Tim a_.swer is given us in is. "Christ produced both the Church 1 even'when Phai_aoh 's host -is on Is- w6 know that'our HeaVenly Fathertoe words of tile Master: "Peace 'I "and "the." Bible': therefdre He -is the _ rael's heels, a path tbrough tbe waters is ready tc bestow His favors upon us.leai, ewith-you, my peace I give unto "place .of/our authority,." Object'vet . _ - will "he.suddenly open. Give ,God 21. St. Paul in a most: profound

you... These things l_ave I "spoken ri_ality--chist0ry. Subjective'realit3,m • i time, and when 'th'e bed Of'Ill/)":break prayer- prayed for great spiritual

unto..you,,,, "that in..me, ye might, bave.. experience. Christ of bistory and the : ! ' Is dry, Elijah sha.ll hem" the5 gui_ling hirers and benefits from [he-Heavenlypeace The peace th.'at brings calm Christ of experience. Then there is ' : voice:". " . " ." " Father. Hdre .is' his prayer: Eph.

to the soul, even amidthe storms that the: collective -experience of Chris- t " - i3) He puts back the stars." '.'Wil- 3:14-21, '!For this cause I'.bow mysweep over-evi_ry life, .is. to be found tians. The Christ of history becomes

inHim. It_can be.found nowhere else• the. Christ of pei'sonal ekperience and ".. liam T, Stidger tells a (inc" story of a knees, unto'the Father of our'Lorddiscouraged young colored minister. Jesfls Christ. of v)h0mthe wl_olq fami-III. _rrlE DEVELOPMENT.(?But grow in tl_is.is not a hallucimition, because itgrace, and.in the 'knowli_dge of our. ' is corroborated bY collective Christian i Evcwtlfing" seemed to have gone ly in heaven.and earth is named, "_hat•Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.") - expeHence.'.Christ is foundm0re and . 1 wrong witla ttiis 'man. Hehad huil't a -he would grant you, according to the

" more to be rehl _md true. Grow in'the " _ chflreh for his people, for he had been • ricbes:of'h_s glory, to be strengthenedA, O_cace • means, first_ the unde- knowledge of Christ - - . " i carpenter; but whefl it was cam- With mightby_.his Spirit in the inner

served love. and'favor whicb Gad'in .... • plated his wife, who had Worked by /nan; that Christ may dwell, in our", "Christ bears to us sinful _knd [nferior 3. Grow in the knowledge of Jest_, - :_ his side, died. This. ancl other'-trying hearts by faith: that._,e being ro_ted

creatures, -But it alsomeans the con- the Saviour.. , ' experiences left him broken and de- and grounded in tdve, may be able tosequence of that love and favor in the a. He is Saviour by. what)He'did, teated. Thenhe lmard, aver the radio.- comprehend with. all saints what ismanifoldspirituai endowments Which b:" He is Saviour bywhat.He"does, a s_rmon by _ well-known minister, the breadtl:_, an(l length, and depth,in us become "graces,',' beauties" and • (1) Have His saving'p_esence, He felt sure that man eould-helphim and ]height: and to .knew the love.of

excellences of Christian character. (2) Have His intercession and ad- . and he went to' see him. He was Christ,'which passeth knowledge, that

" L Means a daily transformation, vocaey. • . cordially received and stayed in the _'e m_ght be filled 'with all the fulnesswith growing completeness and pre- (3) -Need.His atoning powe_:) minister's study for_a long'tiine, and of.God. Now'unto him.:that is able

cision of resemblance, into the like- , (4) Gi-ow in the kn0wle_ge..of'His . " • • . when he came out there Was.a new to dQ exceeding abur_dan_ly,ahove allness of Jesus Christ. " Shviourhood. light in his eyes. "What a-man he is! '! ;.that we ask 0i; think, accoi'ding to the

" he said• "When I went into his office power that worketh in us, unto him2.. Do not want to jellinto wliat we 4. Grow in the knowledge of His all the stars ttad fallen out of my skies be gl0ry'in.the church by Christ Jesus

are now. If you have arriv.ed, you ,Lordship. " --_liut one by "one he put them back throughout all ages, world without" " en "

are done, • . . a. Discover more and more the " againY end. Am .)B. Grow in kr!owledge. Knowledge wonder,_ arid blessings of His gl'acious '" " 't_ '.

of a person is not the same as._nowl-' rule. Let Him.reign. " (4) Mrs.' _eter Marshall "and her 3: This epistle rests on a ihreefold-edge of a, creed or book. More.titan b..Itis a.mastership of care. . experience with Christ regm'ding-]a'er basis/- : - . 51'

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{1:) The will of tile Father as.thef:gcthcr for .an habitation of Gocl " trial_ To stand steadfastly alon_. To the emperor, "What is the meaning.origin of the Church; through ' the •Spirit. ''• "It' means a do th'e duty. To perform the'ta_k, of ya u r name?" (Theosophorus,

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(2) " The _Jtonement of the Son as . sh'engthening of capacity to hax/e God [ 4: Ifcre is on illustration of strength God-bee cr ). He prompl_ly replied,

the ground of our adoption; and . and all H-e grants. ' 'i • through [!_e Spirit. Henry- Wat'd "He who Ires Christ. in. his. breast."(3). Life in "the Holy Spirit as tile m There is.n, n'ecd 1o be ,5 feeble. ' Beecher:" When I wa_; a student at Need "more 'Christophers _bearingscope_andehd.of the go.spel, weak saint. Tile Lord and the divine. / 'Princeton and Prof, Ilenry."had so Christ about in Ihc street, tile cm',

The. prayer Of St. Paul relates to provision arc n6t to be-judged by the ., constructi_d a huge bar of iron bent the shoo, the field, .the office, thethe last of these foufidation stones. _caknbss of those who haw merely into Lhe.form of a'.horseshoe it used s_ore,the home. : -

It presupposes repentance, ju_tifiea- tasted the grace of God. It"was an " _ ...to hang suspended from another iron 2. This bringsa:ooting and.ground-• tiofl regeneration, arid efitire s_incti- amusmg distortion of "a gbod hymn, bar above it. Not only did it hanl_ ing in love..Here is.adouble mete-

" fication. Those.who are the'spiritual but th0re was nota little sound phi- . tliere, but it upheld 4,000 "ieounds phor. nine agricultura[, the. othei"children of-G0d;Jn whom_siaa has been qosophy in. it when the old negro weight attached to if[ That horseshoedestroyed, may receive the abun_lant prcacher'said; "Judge not the Lord by " _ magnet was not 'walded or glued'to architectural... . .

favors mid benefits afforded by the ..fveble.saints. '_ God .has made some i' tile metal above it: but through.the a. Get roots down into |he love ofgl,Jrious riches and full he_hevolenee ti_wering grants. " " " iror_ wwe coiled aro_md it |here ran a God.' Feed bn- that love. •Go deeper "

of the Father' God;. . b. He'strengtheris according to His subtl/_ current of electricity. Stup the .in it.

:4, The Father is ready to gr.'mt, glorious spiritual riches..One should flow of the current for one instant :'h, Lay the foundation on the solidunto us. but'must db so Under certain give: according to his. ability. ,'God and the•huge horseshoe'dropped. So ground of love: Get the debris, and .." -conditions, " gives acee_rding to the measure of His i does all the lifting power of the Chris-• loose ground outof the way ....

a.: The prayer of another, to condi- own etdi'nal fullness. "inHiin is a' sea .... tian come.fr0m the'currents of spirit- .e. Redwood _trees that have stood " "o _ ual influence which flow into his foreenturies. :tion y u a0H grant•you. St. Paul•for of glory-:we have no line to fathom . "

this cause bowed his knees unto the it. In Him isa mountain of goldi.and. -. . • . "bimrt. from the living Jesus. The .... " 'Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. we have no arithmetic to eoinpute i_s • strength of the Almighty. One enters .d. Empii'e State BUildir_g over 100. _ valhe. His is il domain of 'infinite " into the believer. If .this eonoection stories'high. One solid fouridation.

b: For you to pray and worship anc] beauty- and we have. no "adequate with Christ is cutoff in an .instant '_When those three • "ti_emendousbe Conditioned to •receive the grant language to describe it His ]s a.field -" he becomes as _,veak as any other words next confrontedRodney Steele;,gifts of the Father according to His- of.truth und.al] our searcbing is to man." they were:worked, not in silk, but in

. grantsPUrp°seS"orwe"WedoreceiVenot,haveandthbm,USeHis. disdoverthat .He .tlaathaslnayitis beunsearchable';givenunto Altus II. GRANTINGC_-IRIsTTHE"INDWEt,LING,-.:S'rAamlz- • stone!.buildingInin a.HarleylowerStreet,flat'intheretb.e"samedwelt., c. Children are heirs:of God ond through"the'exechtive power of the ' • a bishop's'widow. Rodney gotto know

"]o!nt heirs with Christ. His children Haly .Spirit . .... 1. Christ takes up His abode in the bet': to like her, and: at last,'tocon--

may. share in "hll that God will givel 2. I_ is .strength in the inner man. heart by faith.- " .' ' _"fide. in.her. One afternoon they wereto Christ--joint heirs. They are • .. a: It is a glorious time when the discussing the:r_ovol that all Londonnamed after the'Father. Ttiis. is one a The inner .m.fin"includes a true 'Saviour, the King of Glor_/, comes in, wa_ reading,'-The Great Divine. Itfamily in heaven and in earth. They" conscience: next m o t.ives, theft - " '

.are all one and of one. All this family tboughts, those little springs : that ' b. But the renderinghere gives the was from his own pen, but he didderives its origin and being from God. swell into oce_ihs, tbose germs of ..force of the aorist tense "that Christ not tell her .so:. "Mrs. Bellamy_-theas children derive, thdir name- from everything. We need to-be strength- may take tip His lasting abode." widow--confessed that, in spite of its.

"" him who" is the father•of the family. " ened to thinlYreasonably, accurately, . . e. Implies that with some He has brilliance, she did not like'it. It be-

I!_'', - Holy persons in heaven'ahd in earth, st_ripturally, thoughtfully. "Then come not yet. taken .up His permanent, disbeli(_f.intrayedbitternesS,love;it'.was'alOiSnotOfupliftifig...ideals'a

i derive their being an¢l their holiness affections, the likesanddislikes, those , abode. _ " "".It is-life," Rodney replied. "Life:from God and iherefo/'e His name is excellcn_ servants, but:'horridly bad ..... (1) Opl6osed to taking up"'this tends to make .a 'man los'e faith m

• called upon them. They are bbly.and masters.- •Then _he working of the '_ las[ing abode is a transient, reception love."• • , " Holy Spirit dowff in the inmost cham .godly. They have an affinity for.the ... .......... - of the Holy Spirit, as in • Gal. 3:3, ,, : . - •,, _ut Mrs Bellambers of the soul, secret commumonthings God grar_ts.. They are sniritual " - " - " " Havingbegun in the Spirt:t, are. ye " . . . y would not hear

and can receive the spiritual things. " with .God, intercourse with the in- " now made perfect by the flesh?" .of _t. _ -"Me- . . visible, • - Christians of Galatian type turrt.' to y. I tel[ you," she asked; "thi_

I. Tim GRANT Or STRENGTH .'3. It is strength within for wliat is ' . worldly and fleshly things. . " Bishop's' way of meeting all dfffi-. • ': _ 1: This refers 40 tbe last vex:so of. encountei'ed withotit. . . • Should .answer as did.: Ignatius culties, sorrows, and perplexities?!'

tile preceding chapter: "Builded to- a. To withstand the f.empt0tion and '. : " when, on' his t_'ial, he was asked by'. ":'Do.tell ire" said Rodney.

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"IJe met them with -three lit/.le III. THE GIiANT OF THE REVELATION. has largely the divine element will "God's essence is His own act." Godwords, each of one syllable. "Yet that OF I_,OVEIb/ Foun DIMENSIONS " be ahlc to recognize the divlnc *exist- is etcl'nally love. ..... "

sentence holds" the truth • of greatest- I. rmre s a heart faculty so that - '".. " .. ' " once. (1) He loved us with an everlast-

understanding;rupertto out" pOOrreadjustsWOrldmldouritS/mtire.rightthe 'belic.ye{' may know the love of [. _.'_ I I'il'_d ihysclf thus inti'oduccd ing .love. Ba_:k before the foundatioil

outlook upon life. and should affect Christ Wh-ich passeth knowledge. :i'_ -into a great hall. a glorious amphi- of the world. His love never., knowsall our. dealings with our fellow men: el.' It isa revelation of God to those theater, a temple of ima_easur_ible any chmtge: It is a_ Geo/'ge Matheson' dimertsioos, thronged and crt)wded wrote: _ ..GOD.IS LOVE. "In our first home--a who are prepared .fro; it. 'there are with'all the. saints, all tim holy ones, "O Lore, that _ilt _mt'let me go,country parish in Sm'rey--thrco pre- cm'tain correspm!d!ng "qualities with- Engels and men, into whoso society I I ._'est tlI wear11 soul in Thee:cmus "Children were .born to .us-- in. Theyare sensitive to the Divine ' ". mu stxangcly add of grace_adnfilted. I g ve Thee haclc -th'b liJe I owe,Griselda: Irene. and little. Launcelbf. Presence as the thermometer is" to ' In emnpany with them," and in full • That [n Thine ocean depths its tloi_Sdartet fever ond diphtheria broke heat and.the bare?meter is to. the _ores- sympathy witb them,' I look behind. May richer, ]uller he.ov, t ifi the village, a terrihle e!oide.mic,' sure of the atlm;sphcre, as the tcle- bbford, below, and above: end see,eric "God's love reaches in tinfohling.bean"causing gi'ief and: auk;ely in: many vision set is to the currents that comahomes. We were almost' worn out through the'chanhct. ... .- . ,, b0tiodlcs.q room and imme for all' the ty through life that _hall en_llcss be..'saved. I comprehend, orapprehend,

with helping our poor "peolJlc--nurs-. (1) Henry Ward B_echer: I sat ,its. length, and. '_brcadth and depth and God.Itis the eternal length.of.. :the love • of.

ing, consoling encouragil_g. Th_n, l_lsi, summer sometinms for hours m height. . - , " c. God's 'love infinitt_ly measures

just asthe epidemic.appeared to be the dreamy air of the nmunthins, and ] • a ' Dr, Daniel Steele sa_s." ' When .in another direction. Its depth" reach-.abating,- it reached .our own home. saw, over agalnst'the Twin Mountain Paul prays =:that the beliex_c,rs "ih ,es to the lo_vest fallen ofthe-sons ofOur darlings were stricken suddenly. House.'theAmerican aspcri, of :which ? Ep msians nm:¢ be fully able to appre- 'Adam. and the deepest depravity ofMr. Steele. we lost all three m a fort- the forests there are'frill: I saw all hcnd (r.v.) with all saints, he 'hintS; "the human heart.: In.love;Christ is-night!.. My little Lancy. was the last the coqueterics and blinkings'of that.,_- " at the idea of equal spirifual privilege the Hound of Heaven, Francis•Thomp _to. go. When•be died in my. arai_; I wonderful little tree:--the,wiJ_ch, the . f _l , ascribing to llhe lmmblcsf Chris-. son wris hounded down trite the abyss,

feltI could bear no more. . fairy-tree, of the forestJ As I sat thttrc, : " tian the highest and uost..previous the brink of the Thames. and he wrote:- "My .husband led: me out into the _;hen there ";vas not' a cloud i_aoving, " " knowledge: Thus men at 'the top of No_o 6f the long 16ursuitga.rdem. It'was a soft; s:,vect summer whdn there was not a ripple on the their trans_igm:ed natures "stand on ha_ d the biutd ...

night. Hb took Inn ii_ his arms and glassy surface of the river, when there : :.the level o"L tim[democracy of saint-" "'ThatvoiccC°meson ;satrou_td _''mehke.a" burstin _g "/_to0d long in silence, looking up to was not a grain of dust lifte'_ when: " _ sh'p."the quiet stars, while I sobbcd':upoff: tliere' every'thing was still--dead still" _ : • sea: . .his breast. Atlas_he said, 'My wife, ---_right'over against me that aslddn _. 2."Granted the ai3prehcnsion of its "Lo, all thi_tgs _l_9thee., _or thou'_liest..... br_eadth, -" - • " " " • " ._!te. -'_ --', '-

.there re. one .rope to which .vie must.: tree; and there was one little leaf _ .a. Its breadth is.a girdle that on-.. Alacle, thou lcnoii)est _tbt " "cling steadfastly_ in order tokeep our " quivering and dancing:On it." It was so ,. compasses the globe. Christ is llieheads above Water 'amid these Ovc_'- ntcely poised on'its long, slender stem Race Man and in love gave himself," How little Worthy o].any love thou" art! " -whelming:.waves of sorrow. It has tl'mt. R" knew wben the hi_ moved, f_r the whole" world. Whom wilt:their ]bid to'Idve ignoble

three, golden.straqds._It-will not fail Though I didnot kno'b it, though the There's a. _eideness *n God's mercy " ..theeus: GOD IS LOVE.' dust did not knov;, it and tho.ugh"the

_'The .nhrsery ,:vas empty. -The/'e clouds did not knowit, thaf leaf knew Like the wideness o_ the sea: Save me_ save pnly me?- " Thcie s a kiud_.¢ss in His _ustlce " .fill which l _ook _]rom thee I did butwas no more patter 6f little'feet; no it; andit "quivered and d_ineed, as Which is more than libe_'_y.:' : 1:akc',' " " "

. .cliildren's merry vetoes shouted about much as to'say: "O Wind! you can't" " • " . _the house.' The tbree little graves • in fool me.".. It detected tlie mot;off'of " Breadth of love divine• reacbing from Not _or thy I_hrms; :the churchyard her e the• names {.he air wlmfi'nothing else cbuld. Now: shor_ to shm'e, and from clime to But just thq_t thqu ini_htest seek it inGrise]da,'Irene,'and Launcelot; and on it. only requil:ds, sensibility .in us to clime, fro a_ mountain to plain flow- my arms." "each we put the tekt, spelt out by the detect physical qualities, if we. have ing from thegreat heart of God--it "Ah, _ortdest,: blilidest, weakest,initials of. our.darlings' names: .GOD " the corresponding qualiti'es; or social girdles the glebe. I=am he whom thou seel_cst! • "IS LOVE. And in our own heart-life elements, if.we':have the correspond- b. Think now of.thee'length of di- Thou dr_awest love ]rom thee, whowe experienced the great _calm and .ing elements; or moral attributes, if " " - " " " vin_ love. It reaches from the'eternal -.. drawest me."peace o_.a. faJ.th which had come we have the corresporlding atfributes. . purpose of the missibn of Christ to His love and grace reach deeper thanthrough th'edeepestdepths of soi'row. We.deteCt zitl qualities by the sons;- " " " theeternity of blesscdncas, which .is the. stair/s have.gone,' The depth of

"We .were sustained by : the certainty bility _n us of corresponding qflalit'ies . spent in the' i'neffable glories. God . /.he love 'of. God. " "- I . • I . I , I .

•of the love of God." • which reveal them•to us. And he who eternally makes himself what He is. (Continued On page 63)

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" ' later said that they wereable to recog- nated as the greatest by Jes_s, andThe Bible and- the Church of the Nazarene ] nize itfrom-Handel's famous oratorio once again just the thought, not a

: " t raUmr than as a Bible passage: The direct quotation, was asked. Finally,. By Marvin J. Taylor . . ". :improper:names in_:luded such books 18 per ce.nt _ould not even -identify

'" I as Hebrews, Matthew, John, Revela- these words:"!Our Father Wbich m:t

ia"Is e0inmon knowledge that the people as they'entered college, yofing _ tion. Luke, and Corinthians, among in heaven, Hallowed .be thy naine."Ch/_rch of the Nazareneclaims to people who had .been in.the church ] others. Biblical geography wag also The words were printed in thb ques-

be a Bible-based dcnon_inatibm The 'for.at lena.st oneyear. _ .a puzzle. The phrase' "from Dan to tiohn_/i_'e. The students Were asked to

doctrines of the cllurbb, are pro- " A fev/of the.i-iuestions included and ] - Beer-sheba" was meaningless to 50 flame, the person _yho first Uttered. . I per cent, who.offered no.answer what: "them. " "

chfimed because we believethat they tbe results williilustrate this lack _of _ soever. Another 20'per_cent ventured bgrom.these'results it.should be cot-clearly represent the. teaching .of. knowledge. They" are not difficul}., iScriiature. We believe that the Bible questions... In fact, tbdywere chosen t .an answer which was wrong. Only " ctent' that our young people are notm tbe,Word of God, that it'.has God's. precisely because they were ":_imple 30 per'cent were abie t9 suggest tlmi learzfiug the Bible as they mature inauthority, somet _ ng whiCh.men can- Tbe t_oesiions seemed to'.represent j .it was a nieasuret/_e/at' of d!stance_ the church• It.is probable :that.thisnot take lightly o �loosely.We.believe " the obvious k mwledge- -about: the 5_._ ..... ;and they .weren't a_ed to identify group of students examined does hol., -that. God has made known His will, Bible ,_-_,_---'_-.1^- t:.. , . ,. " _ "-what was'being measured. Only 25 represent the ax_erage person in that .' "

His truth, and knowledge about inn'- have._:So_e'_:xan_p_e':r_:_:= m_:t •.. I _ pei: 'cent,.had any _doa•:where.!t:e age"group. They were cOllege stu- •self, The'record of this 'revelation is qtjestion asked the student to tell | famous_ loye cnapter: 9fine _lole dents and "undoubtedly .above theour Bible. ,_Sinee. this.is true, i_ can where lm would"lbok to find the s'torv _ . 'co(ld be fqund; and another 25"per- average in ability. These statlstic_ " -

hardly be d_nied that in the Bible We. of Jesus .life." Fifteen: per cent: *had. _ .. cent were able to loca!e the,. froth . wpu!d :be ever_ more damagmg ff 1he ,have the'g/'eatest.single bulwark for absolutely no idea wt_ere to turn in ] . •c0apter. . . " . .. :- qucstmnnaire had bee a-gIven to ALLour •faith, tim aUthor_y to'(vhich We thte Bible _a 'few thoffght that ,it" | : ,Certainly" the ,above i'csults are:" young peopleof this age,appeal when questions of :faith and might be in Genesis!). Twenty-five. -,1 startling• But thi_re v(ere also some If-this is ihe status of Bible knowl-.. " .

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dofitrine are.raised, per cent of all .the sttidents.had.nb .. ;. . more lmportanl_questmns which were edge among theScream of.the crop'!

If the? foregoing is true, then it must idea Who spoke'thh fam'ous Words; YIt _ "even more startling. Remcmber,these" of yo_ang Nazarenes, I helieve that it.logically follow tha_, the Bible slmuld _s more blessed to give than to re- . _- . studehts were Nazarenes, members of has serious implicatlons f0r.the future

be a priinary object of our interest, ceive." Only 75 per cent of ih'e stu--- 1 a holbwssehu_'ch, and they.lmd been' -of'the church, We believe tha.t weWe say that it" contains God'stru'th- dents were able to identify th_ one members for at least, one yem'. Yet, have a message which _the IJeople of.and His will. If We would know His who 'delivered.tim "Sermon on the -- | " only 57 "per cen_ k,,ew..where in the "the would need. We have.f0und tt)at

truth _aiad will_ win'must know the Mount. Ten per.cent o[. the group i . Bible to _i_td the account o] Pentecost! message in the pages of God's Word.. "- thonght it was Moses, PlaciT_g it in. _ . Many of those who tried to answer We possess it today bei:ause we. read

Bible. It 'is "His final Yevelation to us. • _ . placed it in"the Old Testament prior and studied the Book. Our evange-" "- " • . the wrong Testament! Only 35-per ;.. For_some _ime this writer (a c01-. cent were able to name the first .' : to th_ coming o] Jesus! This.wbuld listic fervor as a church has. boen

lege instruett_r of English Bible) has Hebrew king, although David, 2xbra: - be much less significant from a Church, motivated by the .Great Commissionbeen doncerned with the apparent ham, _oscs, arid even" Nebuchadnez_ which "knows noticing of the doctrine prln_i_d hfaong the pages of that Bible:

lack of .knowledge -about the: Bible. zar were among the many names giv- _6f sanctification. But for a chu_:ch .Is it not logical to think that we.mustthat Nazarene young- people" reveal, en. One question asked tl)e studen_ " which belieVes'that this is.a cardinal keep our firsthand acquaintanbe &ithThis has "been re-emphaslzed" each to name any one6f the sixteen Old .tenet of Christianity, it is. almost.be-" the Bible, lest thisfervo/" be dimmed

year as entering classes havi_been ex- Testament hooks Of p r _ p h e e.y: _ .y°nd imagination.. Exactly 50 per cent or even lost from our rhidst? Is itstained. In,an effort to measure this .Twenty.one per. cent • of the .entire - were able• to locate the. Ten Com- .not true that we b_lieve"and teachdeficiency• a brief• questionnaire was" - group-could: not list a;single one, al- mar_dments in either. Exodus_or Deu- the doctrine of holiness precisely he-arranged an'd administered to the in- " though" some ofthem did x;enture to teronq_y. The'btlaer 50 per cent were cause we ha_'e found it in the BOok?.

.coming students Of the'freshman class, list Peter and Paul among the proph- " • • almost finaialm6us in finding these Thus,. it must follow that we need toBefore tabulating the results all ques- ." ets of theOld Testamenff The famous - . commands -in the New Testament, continue .to- study the Bible and know

" tionnaires from non-Naz_irefies or MessSanie words of Isaiah, "He 'is de: Onl_' 65 per cent. could state th6 its contents, Or we .will be in dangerNazarenes :of less-'than one year'of spised.,and rejecte d of.men; a man of thought of any one of-'the Beatitudes. of losing .tim very. message which .membership were eliminated. Thus, sorrows . ...' were also a mystery. It was not necessary to quote correct- accol:mts.for our existeuce. .' What ist/_eresults show the status o_fBibTical Asked to:name the book _vhere these ly;..a statement of thdugbf alone was tbe answer? Briefly and si_iiply, tlae.knowledge'of a large group Of young werefounds.only 31. per Cent could . -. required. Only _t4 pe_'/cent had.any Church of the Nazarene must KNOW

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Now it is obvious that this is easier achieve fully the fm_ction of teaching . little time. We have assumed too Finally,: the most obvious but leastto say or writethan it is to.do. Know theScriptu_,e from the pulpit, often, that our Sole responsibility was .uflderstood method of knowing the

the Bible.. How can we accomplish Further. preachi/_g t _eBib e should1' t_ br, ing i!1 the str/u!gcr. We have Bible is.'t6 "read the Bible. A young" "this worfla-while goal? I believe that giveia too little Attention to what hap- college student told me several weeks

" " "not be confflsed w|th doctrinal preach- - -there are at li_ast three !mportafit int. Although they may be the .same, pens in the classroom after he gets ago that he' seldol_] read the Bible

there. This is'.demonsti'atcd by the The distressing thing about the_state_

rection.Stepswhich.......wrycan take ifi this di- siblothisi_tonOtbe_mCessaril_,doctrinallytrU6.soundltiniSser-P°S- questionnaire ab o v e. W e must. ment. is the fact that a" ministerial

.First, 'we nmst preach the Bible.. _non without me'/_tioningLtbe Bible, l" str¢,ngtl!en the teaching "hmcti6n of studeht ! made it. He x_'ouldn't thinkThese words should not be construed and-thus one would teach il only in- " .the ch.udch school, of-infUsing a Church preaching service.as an indictment of the topical ser_ directly, if at all, .When preaching the - "'i. This will o.hvi(msly require better- prayer, ineeting, or Sunday sehobl.men. It certainly has.its place in the great:doet_'incs of the faith, tcach the _ ti'alncd tcactmrs. Few teachers in. tim Yet. he doesn't fir/d it necessalw -to

preaching ministry. However. "the .Bihle'at the same time by the exegeti- " " (_hureh of "the Nazarene.'._vill have i'ead the.Bible. This young.man-was " - "preacher has an ob!igatioi_.,to teach dal apprdacll in denmnstrating their " " . ( pportunity'tost't dy t[ae Bible in c01, raised in the Church of ihb Nazarene,the Bible from his'pulpit. This is .°rigin i l.God;s. Word,.. ! loges 6r:" Bible schools. Hgwt_ver. an.organization founded upon the

- done nmsl effectively in the _.ektu'al A second step iri achieving knowI- , . every .teacher canhave the 9!bpor- Bible and its.teach!ng. Somehow that

or exegetical sermon." There !s much "edge of the Bible is t_ teach the Bible. l tunity to study it in the'local church, experience of twenty years has failedpr(_aching done today in the name of We often refer to our elmrch sehodls j The .Christian.Service.Training pro- to impress upon.him the necessity ofBiblicAl exegesis that is falsely la- " as the teachiihg agencyo_ the church. _ gram is always-.ready't0 assist. But the Scripture for the balanced Chris-

beled, simply.using-a text as a pref< But one does 1not teachwithout shine- " "I local church, and tt(is:means the pas- school, teacher tits opened its pages ,• gee to the SOl'men is not necessarily thing to teach. The study of eduea: " the initiative' lfiust coriie from the tian .life. No minister pr Sunday-exegetical preaching. This can come tional p_ychologyhas placed stress in _ tar USually: He is the '_ke9 man in and brought its message l,o life,for. "• Lbim. It is obvious "flint this young

only after .a careful and extensive recent yem.s upgn the pup Is who are "I the training of his tehchcrs_ "By us-study of the'Bible passage.to be used." taught and methods used in instruct- ing,.tlii_, program i'egular]_ teachers nmia is 'the exception. And .yet', the-.

The .qontent of the sermon, should ing them While this is essential, we .l "can learn the,Bibletogether; and'then questionnaire proves that thei'e is: aspring'frmn.this .study.. it .will then eannut ignore the" mtbject Which is be .competent to teach' it to their deficiency here. "Young people are " " "be .exegetical..Tim reverse of this taught. Wi_ claim that our subject is i classes.." " not learning the Bible through the,

' • . " church schools'or theirprivate study., procedu're is'too often the c_iso; that the Bible. Are we really teaching" }: Streugthening the li:aching rune- . -

is, tlm-iext is chosen after thesel;inon the Bible in our church schools? The. f . tion will also "involve a "change. of One pasl, or recently reported 'howm outlined, bedause it happens to fit results of the questionnaire listed strategy in selecting teachers. Too he encourag,4s the private reading of.• "" "'' c " r "'o " s n 1 Scripture aniong his members ttefhe subject, above seem t_ •indicate a serious . _ ' o_ten me onsoe an n .s PY'" " 1 ' " " "1 " o' "f h " th

What is the key to exegetical weidmess.here.. The.questiofis x_,ere '.'Whom can we get"tb ,,teach tliis se.eets:a B_b e bo k o t e mpn .preaching? - It is systematic and ex, anmng the easiest which could be so- _. class?" The question should be more A poster in: the church entrance an-hau_ti'_e study of the Bible. This will leered. They were obvious questions ' properly"phrased, "Who is best quali- nouncbs the selection. He names it

_hat .the Sunday schiJols should .teach.involve hours of hardwork through a fled to teach this class?" Thtis. a and emphasizes its importance:fr0mlifetime in the ministry. However it 'L they afro'teaching'anything ab6ht primary qualification in tcpcher se: the pulpit in adv'anee, asking th(_ con-will be rewarding Fro n-such study the Bible: The rb_ults speak for the n_ "'leer-ion faust be 'preparation for the grega'L}gn, to re'_id with" him duringwall spring a hwng awareness of the " selves. Our young people aren't learn- office, andthis ifi terms of knowledge " the month. For further inspiration 16- " _ -

- " Bible story and its implications Our ing the Bible in our church school. "" of the Bible. No public sehaollwould read•privately, all ofhis sermons andof this knowledge ,_ill proceed count_' What sthe remedy? S_rength0n tbe " .... allow a teacher 'who had nevcr read prayer meeting talks are taken, fromless ideas for the application .of this teaeM)_g function of the school. history to instrucl:its pfipils iiihistory, texts found in this bo6k. :He:is care,

msight to men's lives and problems. " We liave spent _nillions of hours _f ' " ...Fo_ the same reason the persouwho" ful to';make these sermons exegetical,He& doe_ one gain this:insight. _i'i_b- . time. dt_ring the past quadrennium has'read little or.!m: i_art of the Bible at least half'of the time. Thus. churchably the hest method is to 'set aside on reaching people for the church.: • is poorly.qlaalif ed tO serve as a teach- members are urged to read in their 'an hour or so each day far the spcc'flc Visitation evangelism" m ,almost a or,' The first reaction to this will be homes'the l_assages of the Bible whichstudy of God's Word: This is not lmu.schnkl wor d in every local chut)eh, to claim tliat there are rio such people.' will be used homiletically week by

: mere reading, butactual.study with Haw much time have .we spent.on available. It is precisely here"that week. The methodhas proved sosuccessful, that a Bible study clubcommentaries mad ntber Bible aid.g. .improying tim cb_sses to Which we the Christian Service Ti_aining pro -Such Mudy will enable one td p_:cach ha;,,e invited these, many visitd_;s _ " _ : - grmr/ centers. If they aj?n t.ava'l- c°mp°sed of laymen in the church. _ . I I .

the Bible exegetieally," and thereby .Unfortnnatqlu:', the answer _s very . able, we must train them. (Co)itim_&t on page 62) " ..58

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.... Your Pastor's Wife , " But once her husbafld has accepted• a sense of inadequacy and just a biti .the call. and the family has moved in, of the fine. fresh buoyancy of Spirit

Directionsfor the Care and Use of it i_ automatically taken for granted that endears her-to children and," . . that she willfit intoa preconceived young people_ will be,forever gone."

- , By Margaret Honsion Hess .' " . . pattern. " " " . - -. "This one.flas vast energy and ef-"" . _ . " " " If the former minister's wife _was feetiveness" in particularly diffieul_

(Reprinted by permission Stem minister has a wife, and. practically head of the Pritp_/ry. Department, or cleaning [asks• She can break Up"Presbyteri'an: L.ife,( _ Withcrspoon eyery church has'a minister, conducted _the junior cobb', or held comPletely an old, dec_iying organiza-

Buiiding, Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvan. . But a !mmstcl s w fe t sual y isn'tfit.) . " ". ,,'. ' open house.twenty-four flours "a day lion that'.has existed'bey0nd it_ use-so fro'lunate as to come to your church .... seven.days a week, or. taught the" fulness, and in its place.size can create,"

_omens Bible class, or. called m_le- . something.strong and effective. BeLMOST ai_ evc_ da l , tagged.with a booklet _ff instluctionsm .Y . 'y 'y p'oduet, tnat as to li" " " * _- " '* " " " " '0u bu ' "" ' ow sac works best and vhat fa_.igablyon the'sick'and the/onely, careful not to use for washing finey y nas soJ}m.lnstruct ons on " -'_• - - - ," • , tnere is no use ex eetinthe .package as tj_ how. it w_d Worn • . P ' g fler to b e. these fact.s are pair/ted "out to her things gently." ::. . .most effectively " . = -. able to do. Instead, t sually sl)c co nes without delay. The same opening_ ;'This one iS wonderful at calling on

.,,, ": ,-' '" " " ,. . , along with the mi_ister'hs aldnd of are'.0ffered to lmr regardless o.f he/' . thefilck. She? giv_es herself indefati-.

xou can pick up a can.or soup ann ':surprise pael_age, many times without "" ,t ' " gifts or lack of.them, numberof ehil-' gably to anyone in troub e Don'bcrit-it says, "Add an equal- quantity of even any tag labeling her as to.what dren_ st_ate of health, or anount of icize.her lack of style in elothes: 6r -water; allow to simmer a'few minutes- variety, of human being she is. * energy needed as ,_ sh0ck'absorber the Way she keeps her house, She• to develop the full flavor" ,Thereford " " "

'_' O 'y u don t try to spoon it out of the " When a chul_.ch i_ in need of a rain- for her pai'ticuliir•kind of. husband, can't get that' suffering frie_(d off her

can directly into your mouth in large, ister, it may"hunt for months•to find t _t this point she feels.wretched as mind long enough to look after her-

heavy doses: " " - exactly tlie. i'ight minister for a par- } she realizes she" can't b.e what ,the self."• " " tieular situation. Most people are at former minister's wife was. and the "This one is charming asa hostess.

A. box of soap powder says,. "Excel- " Jtlent for all fine thin'gs." . ou.don t possesses 100 per cent of all gifts,, i _'eady:feels wretched in her new place, use endless artisti'y,in fixir_g eIever

y , least dimly aware that no minister ' forn_er ministcr's.'wife probably al- She" loves to entertain. She loyes to.

enel_gyWaSte"yoUrtryihgtime.tomakeanditY°Ur•wash,wails.nerv°us" Committee l_aemh'crs SEeking a rain- l feellng..slie _ ca'n't fit •into the. pattern little .things in decorations and .re- "

istei- usually "are.awarc 'nf whether " t . w0vea by "her predecessor: " .. freshments that•give lJcople a:glow Of" If you'manage to attain to an•auto- they want'pi'imarily a umn who excels Uhfort;auately there, arma'l any warmtli and w.elcome when they comematte clothes, drier, you soon learn, in-thd pulpit, or a naar_ who will.de: teither by'the _ook of instructions or .written in:structions.that come'along to her home. Avoid asking her to

- vote lfimself primarily to paris.h visit-'" the lmrd way,_t,_.tJt can't be used for" ing,.0r a _nan wlmis.an organizer; or I with .a' minister's wife: _ teach a Bible class or play "the piano.

drying Woolens,.wonderful as it is for a man"who can build a-new church " _ "This one _s excellent at Bihle " She can't." ..everything else. They shrivel up to for tlmm. They can be prett_¢ sure.. _ .teaching, She thrives readily on.10ng ." "In the first letter that Paul wrote" " ": "

• nothing. " - .• they won't"get.everything, ahd if they ... hours of stud_' hnd meditation ar/d to the people of the church'at CorinthIf an automatic electric, washing" are Sensible they thank God .if they _ will come up at regular intervals with he says, "Now about spiritual gifts,

machine is deli,;ered.to y0ur 'hOuse, manage to fall ii/love with a nmn who t_iings people W_nt to hear. Bhe wilt brethi'en, I would not have. you igno-the first thing you •do is gel_ hold emhodiez the'qualltie s their situation qt ekly f01d _.lp slck in bed if subject- rant.". (And.he always says, '._.IwouldOf the book of in'structions- and Sit ".needs most. " . "J ed lo u twenty-taut-hour-a-day Open _iot. have you ignorant,", when. he

down with it for an hour ob 'two to "Howe_,er; in this. courtship period • _ . hou_e." wants to emphasize a point particu-figure out what the machine will do, between church and minister, tile "This one is fine for ehi'ldren'sand, lai'ly.) .and what. there is no use trying to committee worries littlq, abotit .the young.pe0ple's work. She is misers- "Now there .are various :kihds ofmake it do.' You can't make it hurry - minister's: wife, They can't. It's hard. " hie if th.ey don't thtong into her house gifts, but there is .the' same Spirit;for.example. If you insist on: standln'g eno_agh to fit a minister to a' church: and di_e'uss' their, problems at" .all Va'ri'ous kinds 'of official service, andover it, waitin_ until it gets'throug_h, Unless she isspeeifict/llv:invi:ted, she hours'of the day or night. Do not ask yet the same Lord: v_irious kindsofyou'll 'never like an electric washer, doesn't appear on the. scene at'all-- her to give a program at thewomen's effects "and yet the ._ame God WhoIf you can learn 'to. go hway and let ahead of time. She prefers not, to society on the conflicts of tlie church producesMl the effectsin each person.it alone to do its job in its own:way, dompliedte_the situation. Andif she in Latin.Amerlea. 'She will"weep and " But to e_ell a.*-'_:manffestation of tileyou'll-love it. • - ' " • " ,. does appear, it is usually e0nsid_red wring !mr hands.and ask her husband Spirit has been granted for .tile ecru-. Now.a minister!s wife is an every- that she is satisfactory, if she can to give Jr'to "her in so many woMs. men good• Toonc the word of wisdom

day eo!nmodity. Pr'aetleally "every softie graciously.: - - Aftra:wards she will be shattered with 'Ires:been granted through the Spirit;

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to another--" And'Paul goes on to. half-full:cup trying despe_'ately to i " Ther Lighenumerate the 'different gifts• splash.over and not quite succeeding. J Let e Be ! :

Now certainly a minister?s wife " Just that one look at fifty ministers' - i ..... By Eupon ,to haveher heart in wives all t:oggther convinced me _thfit • sfher Miller :Paylerther husband's work: Unless a wife I. "wbuld thenceforward forgct'abgut . ""

fully consecrated to the Lm:d, the pattern the various.members of- _] "O.I':CENTLY I overheard'a man giving !)y the lights tm'•it.,Tl_ey have men-mand fu!ly convinced- 'of ,the worth- the congregation. had for me, I de.- ] ,_.-_lircctions on liow to get to a cer- finned ii,s0 we kimw it,"io be a fact.,_ .. - . ' A nian who 'had gone on a cross-•whileness of the Work: hm:.hushand is -termmcd to ' seek the pattern that tain street: "Turn" at the corner .doing, he-cannot pSssiblybc as effee- Gi,d had foi' me. I:xgould befmys_.If: ], :where the church stands that's al- country au_,o, tr!p.'was the first-totive a servant of the Lord as'he:might and seek to doa real job far the Lord: 1 ways got a l!ght on it." I knew be sug'gest l ghti!_g our ehurcb. He .said

be, . .... instead' of "forever'exhausting myself .] meant.cur churcll, w _jcli for t:he past ]:to was impressed when_he rode into• '- _just moving around trying to fill'a year has three .lights shining .on "it strange towns at night; to find the' _But she isanswerable to God alone position, from clark until midnight, whiehqight churches dfirk, and the sol0ons.

as to just how she expresses that con- " '- u') the 'front'lqnd sides. The bulletin shows: and: stores bright]_¢" .lighted. •secration. Like "anyone eise. she .is God has. honored that decision; lresponsible:0nly forthe strength and have.peace of mind as to the cotfi'se b_lard witlr its announcements and a Why should thehouise of the ".Light"talents God has given her. and is not I have'taken. I felt tlmt my place thought-provoklhg quotation are also of ttm:Woi:Id '! be dark. when' theanswerable for strength and: talents was women's work and pnrti'c:ulai'ly n the brightlight, so that.."he who floodedh°uses_)fwith:tl,mpfinceligb.t?of'darkness are' FUnS lnay read." " .. .. . - -

• He has given tb someone else, Bible teaching; I'have specialized in . _ " Why not_.ifiake .arrangements so" - - that With heilefit to myself and, I .'_ Newcomers in the neighborhood:.

" " - have. come to our church b'ccause,it your church building will "brighten

When I .had been *h nfinister's.wife flunk, othbrs:: When the wl_ispers hf "i "has.been brought to tlmir attention thb-cor_et"'where it is? " "" two years I attended a tea for critic:ran of.what I am not and ":vhat '

• ininistdrs ! wives..'.I wasintrigued to I d'o not- do got. t9 me, I "take.them to' { . ... '_ " " " " " " " "

see what "ministers' Wives. all in .a the Lm'd.and leave them there." " Three,Sermonic Studiesbunch, looked like• There ttiey were. . • • '* "fifty or so of them. About.five 0ftheln . • A pattern laid out for "tls by the" _ lrdngdems lh'wn Out -_ (Continued from page 55)

looked free inspirit, relaxed, at liberr Divine Hard always fits perfei:tly, ((2onti_llt('d _ro_lt page 28) . . . . .... .

ty to bethemselves. The test lookt!d" whethel; wb are ministers" w2ves or " :!i " are ben't upon sin, We.shall hfive to `• d. Consider also that love's heightdrained out, strained: lense, as if .they nut. Inone 'laid onl for'us by htmca_ go int6 small towns; where tl{e people reaches to fhe, infinite. dignities of the •were trying for all they were wor(li bands we'll feel cramped, "confined. "; ai'e fixed in their manner of living throne of, C.hrmt.- From the foulto drive themselves into a pattern and'like miserable f.'iililres, ,,and, do"nbt want new and deeper-re::" abysses of evil there _s sublimation tolaid oUt for them l_y ]{flmanhands, a " ligious experim'ace, r We.. shall even "love's lielght:..As the'mighty m.agnet

. pattern into which 'they cotild noC . . Tim Bilfle and'the '. have io go into rurid, areas, where we in'its attracti_i,e power.liftS to its own

possibly fit: Cht;rch of.the Nazarene .... i. . cat/not contact so many people' but height ever_'.tbing of affinity, so doesI realized thim that that was what " - where: we shallimplant the fullness: the love of.Christ.:It elevates to high-

I had been doing. I was str_ainin_ to. (Continued from r!age .59) - . of the gospel':nigH cvery:plmse of per- egt character :here. I 0oi'inthians 13."grae(_ the position." I was di'iving has Heen for ned They Ineet'one eve- serial, familyiand community life_ I-Ieights to "which we are exaited.• hereafter, To i-Its throne. With Himmyself-to attend all the lhings I was ning xveeklyto stqdy arid discuss the . Fellow elders, we must preach where He is. ".Behold:what nmnnersupposed t0 attend, to take an interest selected book for "that moffth.. The • . scripl.nral lmliness, whereby Christ's _of"love. etc." ...- " .m all the things I was supposed to club is gr6wing andit is expected that re gn in the hearts of tnen wiU come. ..... " " -take an interest ,in, to serve on all :it will have to be divided l_eeause of : to be "eoinplete, and we must ever' IV. Tam EATHEaS F^VOa OF Hm "the committees I. was supposed to -its unwieldY" size. establish this gospbl in new:areas so FuLaN_SS " :.

serve on, entertain all the groups I Here is a cl_tirch which_is reading, that ChriSt's complete" reign will be 1. Grant differentcapaeiti'es. Vari-was" supposed to entextain. . the Bible. Why? The answer is ob-- increasingly extended to all' men.

I felt' like an automaton, my own "_ious. The minister.uses the Bible in "- And as we go into those meuntains, ous size vessels .tlipped under thes0ui empty and vacant, t couldn't ,l_is preaching in such. a'nmnner'that steep and._ocky though they be,.there surface of the ocean all are frill ac-move that fastand still feelnuurished the congregalim_ h_s been mspil:ed t(_ .. . to hew out kin.qdoms for our Lm'd, cording to capacity.:2. The one with the'.sn'taller eapaei-re.my own mind and. spirit. Though" "read it. His technique is not a uew' " " . we can know that lie win gb before 1_, sa:_;s to the one, with the larger ca-I taughl, a class• I '.felt.unable to be "one_ but itis very sticcessffil., Never . " "

still long enough to hea full cup run- befm:e have the people' of- this. church . .. us to lead us. wfilkbeside us In culn,pan:on us, and dwe.ll: witlfin us.to pacity, "Truly,. I could, held but a:

nlllg over, but felt rathei' like just a" (co,al.ued mt p.ge 1;(;) • . : fire us.and elnpov(er us.... (Confilmed on page 66)

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.cause. someone found out that'I like that no single remark be misundei'-

Musings of. a Minister's Wife that job. It was a big job that I.tack-. stood fat: som_tlfiog wrong! We; who" " led-that night: I st,'irted out with six mtike up minisior._' families, m'c not:

By Mrs. W. M, Franklin . : .gallom; hut saw that wouhl not be :ilerfecl: but wd.slnmk[ rmnember that.

pEmI^PS there may ,be some.other which could help to build God s ld enough, so found anolher, hugo srlmo]- incmisisivncics .in. n 1 stets fit ndtes .-- i ' ' : • " ng- cafeteria kettle and made over five arc hard to 'litre down."

m rosters ..wives whose husbands dam if those personalities were sent:- gallons more, and then the men and Since becoming tile mother 6f par=" have th'e job of' being the ohurea lifted; some hfive tendencies toward• _ . women wine Were working in the sonage ehild_:en,'thougtr, I have often

janitor. Generally it's a thankless job mischief:and trouble that need to be ] " ldtchen' had to burry( to get their wondered how" to' keep the.childrenwithout pay, but it's a j6h that some- corrected. Yes.those children needed chocolate before it' was all gone. I'm from being hurt or harmed by.,the in-one has to do. Now and then my my,prayers

" still "remembered " as the'" lady who : cons!stencies.af the people. We do nothusband has had to be away at.the Sbme of those'teachers are women '_ made the chocolate, but the contacts distress.before then_ the things We _ec

- time when the church was.'to have x_!hose husbabd,s rehise to help them', •• i. made were good for nm. Oh,.yes, .or" hear; many times we have hadbeen cleaned, so it was my iob to" inthcirworkfo'r theLord. Some have . they kn'ow that.I'ma .... • "". nimstex s wife: special prayer togeth0r- about diffi-wleld, the broom and _/t[ster.. . problems and hui'den_ in.their homes _ t/my know the nmne and location 5f culties when tim children were.away

One hot Saturday, nbt so.long ago, that are so heavy 'to"bear that they i our church, aml a few of those people' because we would not bring thetii inl I w,qs taking ehre of th,'it -job anti could not go on if it were not for the. . . t have slippbd iu for our reviwd serv- .to'the family attention. 'We do trot

th6ugbt if was a wonderhd time:-to grace God .gives to. them bach"day, ices and speeialmeetings we have h'ad. .ueed to discuss these, things, for'the.r _ • .

" Some have remembered with cards, ehildreh" see and hear,as well as Il_.ay. I knelt.at th,3 t altar where hat- Smrie of the:men te iche's rove known ,' It es have been fought and victori:es the burden,of sickness in their homes ankt'flowers the.bay 3vbi-_ li_]cs at'tiffs did',wfien in childhood "Am I wronghave been.won rind :had,a precious for weeks, have worked hard at,jobs _ parsonage Who has i.heumati_: fever. if I ask people to be quiet "_'vlien the

•season of prayer. Then'.while I swept during the day or on soum midnig it i " - I am' notsorry I made chocolate- for children are with us in making calls?the main auditorium I prayed for' ash it, then ha/'e gone home to work - t" the P.T.A. last year_ If, I'm,asked If I give people a sign or a whisper tomighty,-old:time, Holy Ghost revival hard there and try .to study Sunday- :':i again I'll be glad for the job. for I please change.the conversation whentO eom'e to.our.people I prayed fbr sch0ol'lessons in between other things,,, like tomake outside contacts for our some other person is .the subject of

-,the Lord to- sweep away the differ- so they will be refidy:" to 'teacti o_ church. It'_ just anothei" why to be their grievanee,'am ihurting the call?

enecs that hurt, the ill feelings that Sunday morning Yes, those teachers a good minister's wife and Ipray that Perh ",_ *J " 'Do' ' _ ..... ' " ' t av_ you'.will so3;, nottakecreep in at times, and'the ifidiffereuee need nD;'. prayers. ' • " " some of these may meet the Chmstof some. I.prayed't at the sweeping The Sunday.school superintendent ' ". ••love and Serge because I have been tile children when you make calls."(Cleaning) power of 01p'Spirit would bus the extra but'den of 0m /nterme-,: willing to takir a job others did not ThaVwill work in some localities, yet

come to sanctify the heai.ts of"tlle diat.e boys"to teach, so l)6.n.eeds my c/we about. .-in santo places people ,would ,sa.y'. b"lievers, As I dusted I asked th'e prayers. ,The treasm'er has the:'hur- ; . . , plenty about the:pyeacher letting his

Lord to dust the gnthe_'ings .of" don of seeing that all the.supplies are • • .. , . :," . children run the streets;worldly thoughts ,a n d ambitions, paid f0r'as they are ordered, and in ": ." " . .... : " "Someone. may'say, "Le't _he p0stor-."

habi[s and carelessness away fl'om our church to make a payment-Of "I dill.not kno'w When I was growing"nfake the calls alone." But plenty of "the hearts of those who could be sueh ' $38.00 evi2ry month on the- parsonage, up th_it a ' parsonage would be nay nfinisters and' their wives would say,a blessing to others it flwy were up- tieneeds my.prayers. The secretary, heine: I was .not brought up in a. "No;'' to that proposition, for they

• to-date ill their exlberienecs:-, usher, lihrarian, apd pastor (my hus- parsonage; I'did not helar the preach- kn6w many times Such a procedure isIn.tim basement I swept eaeh 61fiss- .biin'd).. need, .mY prayers. And as the er's family,ilife, or sermons'discussed not, desirable.

room, I thought of those live-wire' 'nmnslers wife/.feel it my, privilege " ' at: the Sunday.dinner table.- l did *_ Some may •suggest that we chooseJunior'h0ys'while in their room and, t 9 pray for these wh0?need'help. And hear my_parents ' prayers marly times a calling,time whe_ .the ehildrefi areprayed for them and theix_ teacher; again as I muse. I'm glad I'm a'min- " • for their pastors. Inconsistencies'were in sOh0b|. Howeven, this-plma does,-also for the Primary boys, the Junior ister's _ife...It's nay way of helping " " " -' .n0v"hashed over_' before thi_ children not a:lways work, either, for people •aiad Primary girls, the Intermediate to•build tile kingdoln of, God, egefi. 6f qur, home; they did not n6ed to be, living in countl:y cmnmunities do notgirls and boys the Primm'y and Be- while I sweep and dust the church. ' for we saw. them anyway," Oh, how feel the pastor.has called unless hegitmer classes, and the young people's - " • * * * * eareftil the; ministet' and his family comes for d meal. Calling on a schoolclass, and theil' teachers. Some oi'i ' I Wonder if I'll make hot chocolate '".- should h_,t How eertai_i they should day would necessitate .a luneb at'those'_ehildren have parents who for'the P.T.A. this year. At the open_ " : - be that the indurring of debtsqs con- school fm_ the. clfildren of the parson-never say a praym" fox, their children: 1(6use th6 P.T.A. had last year I was sidercd a great fault! How careful age. and" be .sure: that some of 'thesome have .marvelous personalitieS; ,'ilsked.t'o make the hot' c meolate be- they.should be in their conversations, memb_:-vS' ehitldren "m'e there too,_4 - - . . ,a "

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Doh't think.' that the inconsistencies 'that His loving heai't los'Ks for every'-. I'{ " i"_"_"_'_'*"_ ''_',''_f'_'°_''''_r" ....... "_"_'_",_" .... "7".... *."_"'7 _'"

Iof other "folk have escaped their at- one to be as near like Him. as the .!. . ..... - -

tent;on. "So .the parsonrdge children Holy ,Ghost can nmke l]bn: and we'll ! SUPPLI YOUmay hear pldnty during tht_noon hour keep lovin_ thenfaf, d"showing Christ "" ES HAVE NEEDED . "

at school• !:How do We kdepthese things from so earCefully in our mvfi live_," thatthey'_vill not "miss the mark" for ' BUT NEGLECTED TO GETaffecting our boys and girls? We can- themselves:" " _' " :. : __ "

trol, keep them .ifla glass ca_e; they Arid ;virile we are wet fing the pil- OILVIAL "' Imust face the battles of life one of -law With our "cars for ms' children, . . .

these days; they must make.tlieir de- Sister Smith and Bl:other Brown may J_l . _ n Fountain" penstyle oil vialcisions: "thi_y :must plan their' li_'es as he weeping thi_ir hearts dat i 1 prayer " . , ._ .... =7__ .,,: ..... with pocket ,clasp and non-, .God helps them to knowHis ",_ill. " " as they fast fbr a.bo:¢ or girl of their • . . leaka[Jle container: Conven- i "

But how tragic,, the children wiao own who has missed the way because tent to ctarry in ihe vest pocket. A necessmy part of .your pastbrcr'l t"have.seen ificonsistenciesmad been in-. of ineonsistencies m some miflister's .'calling eqmpmenl. " " " ' .75eNo. CU,50 . : ,fluenced'in the wrong `way! Hoi,vwct family. . _ . , , " • . - .

the pillow of many a parent Wlio heai's Oh. how important, it is for "each .... : " ET size''• ihis child say, "I can't have t_uch faith, dne to lib,e the holy life we 'want . ,: - SUDBURY"POCK PASTOR'S CaM UNION SETM

in "(_od when people, like _hat m;e othei's'to think.we live odcording to 2 ._ __ Complt_te commumon set io a size .thai slips I

church leaders"!- Wliat can we do? our profession! . _ easily into yoiir, pocket. T' x 1.4 . Now you cc,n

Just k.eep on praying this _ God" will Just musing about how different " i take the communiou serwce rote tire homes.at '" 6verrule; that He Will Show bur boys some lives would be if all would li_'e ' _ shut-ins and thosewho are unable to alihnd the

• . * iegdlar servtces of thechurch. You cor_ enrich tm_d.girls that only.God is pel_feet and eiitirdly, fol;.Jesus!. ' " " ".' . _ !. your . pastorcil ministry by this aclded:servtce to : •• . - . • " " your people..For." years some inv_alids have' not

• "' " ' " _-. " .shared in tile-blessings• of the hard s:Supper, iJut no_ you cdn'takeThree,Sermonic. Studies . The,. Bible"and the ". '_ "' tfiis ministry to their bedsides and bring comfort.and cheer to them: :(Conti_tued from page 63). Church of the Nazarene _ SI]-125 . . .. '.: $7.50

small ineasurc of your fullness• but I -. (Contlnucd from, page 62) - . . :_

have this to satisfy -me. that. when" I bden-rcading the Bible so much'. They : RoDEx PASTOR'SPOCKH .JOURNAl:am full I. have all 'I .want; and ynu are _findirig tile. great_ truths..the in- " " " _, • BEGINTHE NEW'YEAR WITH A Rode:x •loose-leaf pockef'izfdexyourself when full can hold no re!ire?' spiration, and God's will in•its pages and record list for the busy pastor. It .is t:omplete with a flexihle

3, Capa¢:ity may be infihiteiy en- as' millions lrave found for Centuries,. : . • " " '" -_ leather b nder,.alphabetical index, five division indexwith p,lain and

larged..EullnOss of joy and fullness . Once again, Why? It is b'eeause their . . _ _ ruled shee s to be adap ed t0 ySur individual needs, a years supply tof glory may.ever'be ours, .pastor used the" preaching, function " ! o appoimment sheets; a small shppl_ Of'Diary Baptismal, Con- :- , [irmalion, Wedding, " B u r i a 1.

CONCLUSION: of the "ministi'y as an instrument to I _'_ "_:':'_':_2_' _'_"' _' :S;'_-3I| Auxiliary sheets.' Also spaceis "1. When we reach the point in'this rasp re such reading• ](_':'_:_....... =._..... ,=," ,_ !,!., :,_:-,., te II pro_; ded for membership lists. . • . . . , _7 _e...._.. _, , ,,, .....

prayer, "that ye "might be 'filled with The Btble holds-the_ key to the_. fu- '-. ' " _:_::l!l_"'2:___ay.,t_L._.., ,'_:.: : ..:::. II- and calling sts Here i,_ acon-

_11 the fulness of God," we'mast add " " " ' _ ' _ II venie'nt.: system" tar the busy.ture sUccess" of )lhe Church of thq .. ]._ , _z_-:.z=-,_ :r_ .... ,.......the eon'elusion, "Now .unto him that Nazaretie w!thin its pages. Th_ .fl9c_ ['i [-_ _:)___,_.. o q_,.._,j;.....'_';"".. I[ pastor• to keep efficienf recordsis able to do exceeding abundantly., trine of holiness is' fhere proclaimed [' _ " _ _"[_j_,._ '_$..... ['._ l[ and pertinent intormatlbn."

o ,, "/';_F.. eta." '. : ' " m clartty add snnphctty: If we lose t i'" _l"_s_:t__- '_ ....... _ ":: _-_l . . " '.- . :$g.50

the Bible a_ _a result of. n@lect,' We ., _ . t,t. _ ¢-:.*_¢v-"_'_ ::.='":" "-_= " !Ill . Extra Sheeis. per pack,- No.Yhe Core of Positive Prcacliing • lose our mission as a denominatiou. _]]-_Tf_.-_L,_

As ministers let*s read and study the " " i_h _ u " i] " "(Continued from. page 12) : Bible ourselves, let's tr'ain our teach- " '- " ! _:_ .a., • ._ _ _,_,_,.e_conviction and all trumping of tri- ers to teach'the Bible and only the ..

umph. For .the Word •.is really all Bible. and through oui" preaching let's. NAZARENE )UBkISHING HOUSE "that .we can rightfully claim and pro- inspire our congregatibns .to read its .... ,....... . , 29_a TtoaalAve..'BoxS27 15'_2 .u,_,:),._, v,claim in the work of the Cht'istian pages daily,foi" the strength it pro- "- ,0,!, " . KansasCity 41.Missouri _o.o.t_,_ !,.t .....

ministry! -".{'. rides in 'the Chi'istian life: " " " ___ : _ •

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